Lamenting on the decline of values and lack of priorities, Rao said more importance was being given to sports, police, army or any body, while scientists came at the end.
"Very rarely science gets importance. For instance, I got the $1-million Dan David prize, which is equivalent to Nobel Prize in 2005, but nobody talks about it.
"It (the award) is given once in a few years in each subject. If anyone got such a prize in any other country, they say 'Dan David Laureate'. In India, we don't have values. We don't understand what is important and what is not," Rao added.
