SCIENCE IS PARAMOUNT
Throughout the history it's a proven fact that people can be affluent materially and spiritually only by following the path of science. Science is like any other stream of knowledge gained by experience and practice. Anything which is empirically possible, anything which has evidence based explanation is a science. This leads us to do innovations and through innovations we can find newer ways to enrich our life.
Since science is evidence based it's the most important ingredient of a public policy both as means and end. When a policy is made for the common good of the people of a society it must be designed by taking the impact into account . Take for example, the current pandemic of COVID 19 in Indian context. At present the entire nation is mourning under the heat of the pandemic. But how could the virus play such a devastating impact only in India whereas in most parts of the world the second phase passed with comparatively lesser amount of damage? All are in consensus that it was made possible by allowing large conglomerations wilfully. And this policy was just opposite to what was exhibited by the evidence based knowledge about the nature of the virus. Secondly ill equipped health system is another factor. If as a policy maker we ignore the importance of a healthy man for the survival of a nation we are just naive. And health is not ensured automatically. For ensuring health a strong system is required and this is again an evidence based knowledge which enables us to formulate a policy for future. But we have seen, despite availability of evidences we continued to ignore this system. Thirdly and the most importantly the temperament. India is perhaps the only country of the world which Constitution explicitly directs the state to make endeavor for dissemination of scientific knowledge and spirit. A person equipped with scientific spirit is always ready to make queries about the things and accept only those which are proven. But in our country despite the knowledge of importance of face masks and physical distancing in the present context most of the people don't follow the same without the state coercion.
So if we wish to make the nation a truly strong nation , we will have to make science paramount.