Lok Sabha Question No. 2523 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-01
Subject: Students Enrolled in various Scientific Institutes of CSIR
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2523 (To BE ANSWERED ON 01.08.2018)

## STUDENTS ENROLLED IN VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES OF CSIR

## 2523. DR: J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of students enrolled for research in various scientific institutes of CSIR during the last three years and the current year;
- (d) the corrective steps taken by the Government to increase the number of students enrolled various scientific institutes of CSIR?
- whether there has been a decline in the number of enrolment of research scholars; (6) if so, the details thereof along with the reasons therefor, institute-wise during each of the last three years and the current year; and

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR: HARSH VARDHAN)

- (a) The number of students enrolled in various constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) during the last three years (2015-16 to 2017-18) and the current year (2018-19) is given in the table below:

| SI. No.   | LaboratoryllnstitutelUnit Name                                                                 | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   |   2018-19 |
|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1         | Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal                            | 2         |           | 9         |         9 |
| 2         | Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) Roorkee                                             | 2         | 2         | 2         |         2 |
| 3         | Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow                                                | 133       | 136       | 70        |        91 |
|           | Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI) Karaikudi                                   | 5         | 5         |           |        33 |
| 5         | Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai (regional centre of CEERI, Pilani) |           | 1         | 3         |         6 |
| 6         | Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani                             |           | 22        | 29        |        33 |

| SI. No.   | LaboratoryllnstitutelUnit Name                                                                  | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 7         | Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) Mysuru                                    | 28        | 29        | 15        | 29        |
| 8         | Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) Kolkata                                      | 23        | 23        | 24        | 22        |
|           | Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Bangaluru (regional centre of CIMAP, Lucknow) |           |           |           |           |
| 10        | Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) Lucknow                                | 34        | 34        | 39        | 54        |
| 11        | Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad                                  | 2         | 2         | 1         | 2         |
| 12        | Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai                                              | 26        | 28        | 11        | 37        |
| 13        | Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI)Durgapur                               | 6         | 6         | 6         | 8         |
| 14        | Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) New Delhi                                                | 2         | 3         | 1         | 2         |
| 15        | Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Institute (CSMCRI)Bhavnagar                                     | 37        | 44        | 47        | 61        |
| 16        | Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh_                                 | 5         | 10        | 10        | 16        |
| 17        | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)Hyderabad                                       | 52        | 62        | 65        | 80        |
| 18        | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Madras Complex, Chennai                             |           |           |           |           |
| 19        | Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai (regional centre_of CEERIPilani)    |           |           |           | 2         |
| 20        | CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-API) Bengaluru                                             |           |           |           | 3         |
| 21        | CSIR- Unit for Research & Development of Information Products (URDIP) Pune                      |           |           |           | 2         |

|   SI. No. | LaboratorylInstitutelUnit Name                                                              | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|        22 | Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB)Kolkata                                          | 109       | 133       | 78        | 119       |
|        23 | Indian Institute of Chemical                                                                | 361       | 405       | 280       | 322       |
|        24 | Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (WIM), Jammu                                       | 8         | 8         | 8         | 42        |
|        25 | Indian Institute of Petroleum (WP) Dehradun                                                 | 19        | 24        |           | 36        |
|        26 | Industrial Toxicology Research Institute (IITR), Lucknow                                    | 17        | 17        |           | 43        |
|        27 | Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB)_Delhi                                    | 54        | 57        | 64        | 104       |
|        28 | Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) Palampur                               | 27        | 28        | 31        | 45        |
|        29 | Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT)Chandigarh                                           | 75        | 86        | 99        | 114       |
|        30 | Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar                          | 10        | 10        | 9         | 22        |
|        31 | National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) Bangaluru                                             | 2         | 2         | 2         | 4         |
|        32 | National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)Lucknow                                         | 32        | 39        | 24        | 40        |
|        33 | National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)Pune_                                                     | 208       | 235       | 140       | 208       |
|        34 | National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Mumbai (regional                     |           |           |           |           |
|        35 | National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)Nagpur                         | 13        | 15        | 15        |           |
|        36 | National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) Hyderabad                                    | 25        | 27        | 31        | 38        |
|        37 | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST); Thiruvananthapuram | 75        | 85        | 89        | 120       |
|        38 | National Institute of Oceanography (NIO)Goa                                                 | 48        | 54        | 56        | 72        |

| SI. No.   | LaboratoryllnstitutelUnit Name                                                             | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 39        | National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi (regional centre of NIO, GOA)                    | 3         | 3         | 3         | 5         |
| 40        | National Institute of Oceanography, Mumbai (regional centre of NIO, GOA)                   |           |           |           | 2         |
| 41        | National Institute of Oceanography, Visakhapatnam (regional centre of_NIO_GOA)             |           |           |           | 3         |
| 42        | National Institute of Science Communication And Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi | 4         | 4         | 4         | 4         |
| 43        | National Institute of Science Technology & Development Studies (NISTADS) New Delhi         | 3         | 5         | 6         | 10        |
| 44        | National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) Jamshedpur                                         | 2         | 2         | 2         | 6         |
| 45        | National Physical Laboratory (NPL) New Delhi                                               | 54        | 70        | 51        | 79        |
| 46        | North East Institute of Science and_ Technology (NEIST)Jorhat                              |           | 7         | 7         | 14        |
| 47        | Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai                                     |           |           |           | 6         |
| 48        | Human Resource Development                                                                 | 2         | 3         |           |           |
|           | TOTAL                                                                                      | 1526      | 1737      | 1384      | 1967      |

- (b) Madam: The number of research scholars in CSIR institutes during 2015-16 was 1526 which has increased to 1967 during 2018-19 (current year): No,
- (c) Does not arise.
- (d) CSIR has recently increased the number of JRF-NET fellowships by 100% through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test ' (NET) conducted in December 2017 . It is evident from the fact that in the NET conducted in December 2017, the number of JRF-NET awarded by CSIR for financial support are 4060 compared to 2029 awarded in NET conducted in June 2017 . It is further stated that CSIR's JRF-NET students are free to join any University and R&D institution of their choice including CSIR laboratories to advance their research career and therefore increase in number of JRF-NET fellowship awarded by CSIR will have a positive impact on their joining in CSIR institutes as CSIR laboratories offer the research students the state-of-art infrastructure facilities.

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