Scientific research in Indian universities is declining, because a career in science is not as attractive as business professions, engineering or administration, and the universities are becoming consumer-oriented. Critically comment.

The RRI result is a counter-example showing frontier research continuing in Indian institutes, backed by mission-mode funding under the National Quantum Mission.

• RRI Bengaluru's QuIC laboratory, led by Urbasi Sinha, showed in Physical Review A that a single well-timed flip can delay decoherence and sometimes avoid entanglement sudden death.
• The same team demonstrated free-space quantum key distribution between two buildings 50 metres apart in February 2021.
• The National Quantum Mission (approved 19 April 2023, ₹6,003.65 crore for 2023-24 to 2030-31) funds four thematic hubs and targets 50 to 1,000 physical qubit computers in eight years.

Use it in the conclusion to note that recent reform aims to widen India's research base beyond government, while showing that money flow and governance still constrain it.

• India's research spending has long been led by government, with private firms contributing a small share; the ₹1 lakh crore RDI Fund, routed through the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, targets private deep-tech R&D.
• Its September 2026 pause, after the TDB's ₹2,000 crore ran out in one round, shows research funding needs assured multi-year releases to be credible.