Our Motivation

VIGYANDEEP SCIENCE FOUNDATION is established as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to spread awareness about the progress of modern science amongst different elements of the society; especially the Indian youth in both the rural and urban areas. Modern science has been driving the technological developments across the world over the past many decades, and the pace of the consequent transformative changes is also picking pace by the day.Comprehending the canvas and scale of these developments and their potential impact on our lives and our future are essential for young India to be able to position themselves in this rapidly evolving scenario. While there is a lot of information out there on the internet and the youngsters have an access to it, it is hard for them to distinguish between authentic information and knowledge, and something that is simply wrong. Having exposed to such wrong information at a premature age and stage in learning, it is even harder for them to unlearn and get back on track. While we, as community of people, touted the spread of information on the internet as “information revolution”, it is already under the clouds of “information pollution”.

Thus, it is essential for experts to reach the Indian student and teacher communities directly, and engage in a fruitful discourse of interactions, communications and discussions. It is important to emphasize to them that information is not knowledge, reading is not understanding, and seeing is not observing. It is equally important to identify and support exceptional science talent that would be torch bearers of scientific progress for our country and internationally. While talent is equally spread everywhere, opportunities are not. The rural areas in India are deprived of facilities and access to information, and fall behind in progress. Much more is therefore required to be done to connect to the students and teachers in rural areas and do the necessary hand-holding to bring them into the mainstream of knowledge, information and understanding. These foregoing arguments and ideas form the basis for initiating VIGYANDEEP science foundation; the motto being connect, engage, reach out and help.

We, the people behind VIGYANDEEP, are Professors, Scientists, and Professionals, who love modern science and appreciate the transformative changes brought about by the scientific and technological developments in our lives. We are equally concerned about the challenges posed by these developments for the environment and sustainability. We intend to develop and provide a multidimensional platform for young India and other elements of society to understand the pulse of these changing times and position themselves for leading a successful career and life.

A few years back some of us had initiated a start-up activity named “S & T Digital” and organized various international conferences, highly successful workshops on Careers in Science and Technology, and special talks under S & T Cafe. This has now morphed into VIGYANDEEP for a broader reach and higher societal impact.