Lok Sabha Question No. 545 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-06
Subject: Advice to States on R&D
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAGHAV LAKHANPAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 545 TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 th  FEBRUARY, 2017

## Advice to States on R&D

545.  SHRI RAGHAV LAKHANPAL: Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government has advised the State Governments to build research institutes in the States; and (b) if so, the details thereof and the response received from the State Governments

- in this regard during the last two years?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY)

(a) & (b) Education being in the concurrent list, the creation of new institutions is the responsibility  of  both  Central  Government  and  the  State  Governments.  The  State Universities  are  set  up  by  Acts  passed  by  the  State  Legislature  and  the  Central Government has no role to play in setting up of State Universities. It is for the States to decide depending on their requirements.

However,  the  Government  is  continuously  striving  to  improve  the  quality  of research by emphasizing the need for promoting research that is socially relevant and is of use to the end users.

For  the  purpose  of  encouraging  research  there  are  two  schemes,  namely IMPRINT  (Impacting  Research  Innovation  and  Technology)  and  UAY  (Uchhatar Avishkar  Yojana)  launched  for  centrally  funded  institutions.  IMPRINT  focuses  on research in higher educational institutions wherein the cost of the project is met to the extent of 50% by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the remaining  50%  by  the  participating  Ministry/Department.  UAY  promotes  industry sponsored, outcome-oriented research projects. The project cost under UAY is met to  the  extent  of  50%  by  the  MHRD  and  25%  each  by  the  Industry  and  the participating Ministry/Department.

University Grant Commission (UGC) provides financial assistance to candidates pursuing M.Phil./Ph.D. on regular basis in the field of Humanities, Social Science, Sciences and Engineering & Technology under the doctoral and postdoctoral schemes. Some of the fellowships granted under the doctoral fellowship scheme  are  Junior Research  Fellowship in Science, Humanities and Social Sciences; Basic Science Research Fellowship; Swami Vivekananda for Single Girl Child fellowship for Research; Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC candidates; National  Fellowship  for  Higher  Education  of  ST  Students;  National  Fellowship  for Students of Other Backward Classes (OBC); Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority  Students  and  National  Fellowship  for  Students  with  Disabilities.  The fellowships  under  Post-Doctoral  Fellowships  include  Dr  S.  Radhakrishnan  Post Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities; Dr D.S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellowship; Post Doctoral Fellowship for SC/ST; Post Doctoral Fellowship for Women.

The  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Rashtriya  Uchchatar  Shiksha  Abhiyan (RUSA) under its Component 8: Research, Innovation and quality improvement also provides support to State Governments  for  enhancing  research  quality.  The component supports facilities such as incubation centers, innovation hubs, procurement of high quality e-resources, initiatives for scaling up industry-academia partnership, promotion of research and entrepreneurial activities, etc. States prepare a Research and Innovation Plan (RIP) which is examined by an expert committee and subsequently placed before the Project Approval Board (PAB) for consideration.

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