Problems Encountered by Researchers

 

Problems Encountered by Researchers

Research plays a vital role in the development of a country or business organization. The developed countries are developed because they have strong research support system. In India the state of research was not very good before independence. The government realized the importance of research in framing the policies for the development of the country later on. In the modern times the business organizations have realized the importance of research in last three to four decades only. India being a developing country is striving hard to achieve higher levels of research. But, Researches in India face several problems are listed below.

Lack of skilled researchers - Research is a scientific and systematic investigation into a problem. In India there is scarcity of competent researchers due to the lack of scientific training in research methodology.

Lack of code of conduct - The researcher in India does not have a well-defined code of conduct. They do not have ethical or moral guidelines for becoming good researcher. Therefore, they often face non-co-operation in team members. There is a clean need of proper distribution of work, assignment of responsibility and answerability and a well-defined code of conduct for researchers in India.

Insufficient interaction - There is a wide gap between university research departments, other research institutions, and the policy-making bodies. This leads to the confusion for research workers what data are to be collected and analysis to be performed. The policy maker should provide a well-defined problem and a guideline of the data to be collected, to the researchers. There should be regular meetings of the decision makers and the field researchers.

Overlapping research studies - Due to the lack of proper information and inter-departmental interaction many times there is a duplication of research studies. Some time two or more research studies overlap one another leading to confusion and misleading results.

Lack of confidence - In India we lack confidence in research organizations and its people. Business organizations are reluctant to provide information about their companies for it may be misused. In the surveys of individuals common public is shy or secretive in providing personal information. Therefore, research organizations in India will have to win the confidence that the data obtained from companies and individuals will be kept strictly confidential and will not be misused.

Lack of funds and facilities - In a developing country like India research is kept at a last priority where as for fast and organized development research should be first priority. Researcher in India face the difficulties of lack of funds, secretarial assistance, trained staff and computational facilities. Efforts should be made to provide and meet the requirements of research studies by the government agencies as well as business enterprises.

Lack of literature - The management of published data is quite poor in libraries and other official sources. The researcher has to spend unnecessarily a lot of time in tracing books, journals and reports relevant to his study. Even the supply of government publications is not timely and regular. Through Internet has given some relief to researchers and a lot of research material is available on Internet. But authenticity of data on Internet is doubtful.

Pankaj Mandape