New Delhi, May 11 -- Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that India is among the first-class countries in science and technology, adding that most of the development in the sector happened during the last 10-11 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

"This is the 27th National Technology Day. It started in 1998. This was the idea of the then-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. To commemorate the successful Pokhran tests, this was started," Minister Singh told ANI.

"On the silver jubilee of the National Technology Day in 2023, the chief guest was PM Modi. All developments regarding science and technology have been done only in the last 10-11 years. I think the biggest evidence of that is in the past 3-4 days, where all scien...