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Kottayam: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged the Centre to allocate more funds for scientific research and knowledge fields. He was inaugurating the first phase of the infrastructural facilities being developed at the Sreenivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences in Pampady on Monday. This is a project included in the fourth 100-day action programme of the state govt.

The CM said that only 1% of the country's gross production is being spent on scientific research and development whereas the world average is 1.8%.TNN

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