<Li> Establishment of Platinum Jubilee Lectures to be organised in each section during the annual session of the Science Congress and </Li> <Li> Extension of the recent activities of the ISCA and its further diversification to generate scientific temper and popularise science </Li> <P> The five - day - long session, from 3 to 7 January 2011, at the Campus of SRM University, Chennai was inaugurated by prime minister Manmohan Singh on 3 January 2011 . The focal theme of this session was: "Quality education and excellence in scientific research in Indian universities". The prime minister said: "The Indian scientific community must apply its research findings and translate them into marketable products for the country to realize the true benefits of scientific progress . At the same time, he cautioned on "illiberal" uses of technology and cited use of nuclear weapons, applications of synthetic chemistry in agriculture and in poison gases and "perverse use" of genetics in Nazi Germany to drive home his point . </P> <P> Nobel laureates Amartya Sen, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ada Yonath, Thomas A. Steitz, Tim Hunt and Martin Chalfie delivered special lectures at the congress . Venkata Ramakrishnan inaugurated the parallel Children's Science Congress on Tuesday, 4 January 2011 . </P>

Where was held the 98th indian science congress in early 2011