Editorial

If we mean what we say, we should act to achieve self-sufficiency and cut down import on account of progress in industry. Incentives, assistances should be provided to scientists, engineers, technicians, inventors and enterpreneurs. A tiny generator which can be held in one's palm to supply the electricity needs of a single family, an anticollision device for speeding cars in the street, an automatic machine for cancelling stamps on letters and packets, an effective substitute for scarce chromium for its important applications and an improved superdrafting system for textile yarn-these may not have much in common. But all of them certainly have one thing in common; viz. inventivity which only makes them; possible. A developing country like ours needs, for the growth of its economy and for raising the peoples' living standards, new inventions and new improved processes and techniques, which either reduce time, cost and space or substitute materials, equipments, etc. and save foreign exchange.