NEW DELHI Wasted Technical Manpower THE question of upgrading technology and R and D is an important one. It can also become an alibi for extending and enlarging collaboration arrangements for foreign technology transfer. Even as Bharat Electricals is in the final stages of entering into a 15-year deal with Siemens of West Germany and has been questioned in this light, the signing of a comprehensive 15-20 year agreement on economic and technical co-operation with the Soviet Union, at the time of Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin's visit, sanctifies simi arrangements in other areas