Return To India
Wadia returned to India in 1945. In 1947, he became and advisor to the government led by Jawaharlal Nehru. At a meeting he suggested that India should move away from a "luke-warm, hesitating and even patronising" attitude to science and bring about co-operation among Indian scientists to help in tapping "the basic sources of wealth and well-being, yet imperfectly tapped in land, man-power, its rivers, forests, minerals and electric power". In 1948, Homi Bhabha helped in the creation of the Indian Atomic Energy Act and the creation of a Commission. Wadia was appointed in this commission in 1949 to help in surving for raw materials for atomic energy. This led to the extraction of Thorium and Uranium ores in Kerala, Bihar and Rajasthan.
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