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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Science and technology play a huge role in our society as well as in our lives. Nowadays we all are surrounded by technology and are dependent on it for everything we do. Especially after this pandemic everything is in virtual mode and is completely based on technology. We live in the technological era where gadgets are of outmost importance to us. A gadget is simply a human made device which is programmed to reduce human effort and does a piece of job easily without any hassle.

In this fast-growing world we human beings are always surrounded by machines and gadgets for every need of ours starting from the time we get up in the morning till we again go to bed we even use gadgets while we are asleep such as air conditioner, insect repellent and many more. Science is a boon for us, but in the other hand as everything has its own merits and demerits there are also people who do use science for a bad cause. Technology is good but it is advisable to keep this technology out of the reach of children as otherwise they will not tend to learn things and will prefer to take the help of science to solve a particular existing problem this may affect their growth.

IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY :


Technology, science and knowledge are important in modern contemporary society. Essential questions include the following : How does science and technology produce new products, new ways of living and new nutritious? Why is new technology and knowledge so fundamental to us in the ways through which we imagine the future?


Technology, knowledge and science are fundamental in modern contemporary society. The understanding of how social, cultural and material elements influence the production of new practices, new ways of under of contemporary postmodern society. Studies of technology and science provides students with insight into how different processes of knowledge are initiated and progressed, and how innovative technological processes are developed employed and increase in importance.
In this manner, students will be provided with the academic basis for working with detailed analyses of different forms of technologies and process of knowledge within business life or industry and commerce, research work , political development, management of knowledge and innovation.


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY :


Science , technology and innovation each represent a successively larger category of activities which are highly interdependent but distinct. Science contributes to technology in at least six ways.

  1. New knowledge which serves as a direct source of ideas of new technological possibilities.
  2. Source from tools and techniques for more efficient engineering design and a knowledge based for evaluation of feasibility of designs
  3. Research instrumentation, laboratory techniques and analytical methods used in research that eventually find their way into design or industrial practices, often through intermediate disciplines.
  4. Practice of research as a source for development and assimilation of new human skill and capabilities eventually useful for technology.
  5. Creation of a knowledge base that becomes increasingly important in the assessment of technology in terms of its wider social and environmental impacts
  6. Knowledge base that enables more efficient strategies of applied research, development, and refinement of new technologies.

THe ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY


Teaching technological literacy, critical thinking and problem- solving through science education gives students the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in school and beyond.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY USED IN SOCIETY :


Science and technology have had a major impact on society, and their impact is growing. By making life easier, science has given an the chance to pursue societal concerns such as ethics, aesthetics, education and justice to create cultures, and to improve human conditions.

Misuse of contempt of court

Contempt in its true sense means scandalizing, disrespecting courts or individual judges or jury and
attributing motive to certain judgment. With the intent of implementing the orders of the court of law
and preserving it from scandalizing the “CONTEMPT OF COURT ACT” was modified and adopted in the
parliament in 1971. The punishment for contempt is maximum of six months imprisonment or fine of
rupees 2000 or both. It is a restriction on one of the fundamental rights “The Right to Expression”.
Contempt is of two types-Civil contempt and Criminal contempt.


According to the section 2(b) of The Contempt of Court Act, 1971, civil contempt means willful
disobedience to any judgment, decree and direction, order, writ or other process of a court or willful
breach of an undertaking given to the court.


According to the section 2(c) of The Contempt of Court Act, 1971, criminal contempt means the
publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise)
of any matter or the doing of any other Act whatsoever which scandalize or tend to scandalize, or lower or tends to lower, the authority of any court or prejudice or interfere or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding or ineterface or tends to interfere with or obstructs, the administration of justice in any other manner.
Criminal contempt is considered a conduct directed against dignity of Court. That’s why criminal contempt
often highlights as the only contempt. But that’s not true according to the report submitted on the review of
the Contempt of Court Acts, 1971 by The Law Commission of India chaired by Justice B.S. Chauhan states that
there is more number of civil contempt cases (96,993) than civil contempt cases (583) in various high courts
and The Supreme Court. But despite high ratio of civil contempt the punishment ratio is very low. There is a
very fine line between contempt and criticisms and because of it criticism is understood as contempt. In its
previous judgments Supreme Court states that contempt victims should not be punished until the contempt
is intended or tends to interfere in the due course of administration of the courts. One of the major
drawback of the contempt law is that the judge is victim as well as prosecutor and the same person is
assuring justice which is against the basic theory of justice. In the recent cases we see renowned Prashant
Bhushan criticizing CJIs and found guilty in the court of law and fined for Rs 1. The court has the power to
pick up any publication and scrutinize it as contempt of court in the courts. This makes people hesitate to
present their point of views on certain judgments as they fear to be punished for contempt. This also present
judiciary in a bad light in front of the citizens.


The Courts should check civil contempt more than criminal contempt. The Courts should develop habit of
criticism on their judgment because they can also give controversial judgments. Even the Supreme Court is
supreme but not infallible. In a healthy democracy everything should be questioned. Courts should accept
their bonafide criticism as they will help them deliver better judgments in the future and criticism makes any
institution better not disrespect them.