“India today is reeling under the absence or paucity or the lack of the PPEs, lack of indigenously developed ventilators, lack of good amount of sterilisers. The development, that the country needs, the development that the poor people need,” Basu said in the message posted on the institute's website. He urged students to view these difficulties as challenges that a budding engineer or technologist should strive to solve or overcome. “As a technologist or as a scientist you can see that the coronavirus has actually attacked our medical and technological infrastructure. “As more and more coronavirus cases are being reported, the shortage of essential facilities is coming out in the open.

Source: The Telegraph April 06, 2020 20:26 UTC