bhopal underlining the need to open a special mathematics branch in barkatullah university bhopal indian institute of science and education research iiser director and scientific advisor to prime minister prof vinod kumar singh advised young scientists to concentrate on ground level new scientific research he expressed his views at the inaugural function at the 27th young scientist congress at national science fair lal parade grounds on tuesday inaugurating the event science and technology minister kailash vijayvargiya exhorted the participants to do researches on the indian scientific traditions and methods he also underlined the need for increasing food grains production and finding out alternative sources of energy in view of increasing population principal secretary science technology alok shrivastava said there is need for greater stress on teaching and studies of science in the present context the number of institutes for excellence will be increased for this purpose director general of madhya pradesh council for science technology prof pk verma said several changes have been made in the format of 27th young scientist congress besides expansion of branches of research award money has also been increased this year young scientist congress has been organised in the backdrop of science fair during the twoday congress about 200 young scientists would present research papers on 24 subjects like agriculture chemical sciences life sciences environment sciences computer sciences among others a panel of judges will select best research papers