Lok Sabha Question No. 3201 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-12
Subject: Vacant Posts of Scientists
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Ramcharan Bohra

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

## DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3201

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 12/7/2019

## VACANT POSTS OF SCIENTISTS

## †3201. SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY वान और ौयोगक मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of posts of scientists lying vacant in top scientific institutes of the country, institute/laboratory-wise;
- (b) the steps being taken by the Government to fill up the said vacancies;
- (c) the details of the scheme formulated by the Government to encourage women scientists in the country along with the outcome of the said scheme during the last five years;
- (d) whether the Government has any scheme to provide opportunity through fellowship to the  students  of  the  schools  and  colleges  in  the  country  to  work  in  top  laboratories  of  the country on the lines of America and Europe, if so, the number of young scientists invited in this regard; and
- (e) the details of the laboratories which are participating in this work?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE; MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; AND MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

वाय और परवार कयाण मंी ; वान और ौयोगक मंी ; और पृ वी वान मंी

डॉ. हष वधन

- (a) The  number  of  posts  of  scientists  lying  vacant  in  laboratories  /  institutes  under Ministry of Science and Technology are given  at ANNEXURE-I.
- (b) As and when a vacancy arises, the concerned laboratory / institute initiates  necessary steps to fill-up the vacant post of scientist in accordance with the extant  rules.
- (c) The 'Women Scientist Scheme' of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) provides  career  opportunities  including    fellowship  to  unemployed  women  scientists  and technologists, especially those who had a break in career, for pursuing research in frontier areas of Science and Engineering. The scheme provides for conducting research in Basic & Applied Sciences;  S&T interventions for Societal Benefits; and enabling women to become Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) professionals.  In last five years, more than 1800 women scientists  and  technologists  have  been  supported  under  Women  Scientists  Scheme.  During 2017-18, DST launched a  new program  viz. 'Indo-US Fellowship for Women in STEMM' (Science,  Technology,  Engineering,  Mathematics  &  Medicine)  to  provide  opportunities  to Indian Women Scientists, Engineers and Technologists to undertake International collaborative  research  in  premier  institutions  in  USA  for  a  duration  of  3-6  months  and  20 women scientists have availed this fellowship so far.

Department  of  Biotechnology  (DBT)  is  implementing  a  program  known  as  Career Advancement  and  Re-orientation  Programme  (BioCARe)  for  women  scientists  aiming  to enhance  participation  of  Women  Scientists  in  Biotechnology  Research.The  program  was launched in January, 2011. 315 women scientists (165 unemployed and 150 employed) have been supported so far under this programme.

Council  of  Scientific  and  Industrial  Research  (CSIR)    under  its  "Capacity  Building and  S&T  Human  Resource  Development:  Doctoral  and  Postdoctoral  Fellowship  schemes", provides  age  relaxation  of  5  years  to  women  candidates.   Of  the  total  research  fellows supported by CSIR, the representation of female research fellows has increased from earlier 36% to 42% at present.

(d) & (e):  No Sir, No such similar scheme as practiced in the United States of America and European countries is under consideration. However, DST through its scheme 'Scholarship for  Higher Education'  (SHE)  under  Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Programme  has provided opportunities to the talented science students of various colleges,  universities  and  institutes  of  higher  learning  to  do  Summer  Research  internship. Since  2014 , at least 8418 INSPIRE scholars  have undertaken  summer research internship at various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs),  Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research  (IISERs),  National  laboratories,  Central  and  State  universities.  CSIR  also  has  a student-scientist connect programme, initiated in 2017 called Jigyasa. It is a non-fellowship programme. The focus of the programme is on connecting school students and scientists at CSIR  laboratories  so  as  to  extend  student's  classroom  learning  with  that  of  a  very  well planned research laboratory based learning.

DBT has a program known as Star College Scheme to support colleges and universities offering undergraduate education to improve science teaching across the country and 'hands on'  experimental  work  at  undergraduate  (college)  level  in  sciences.  Apart  from  financial support, colleges have benefited tremendously from guidance received in Advisory Committee Meetings, mentoring, Task Force Meetings and learning from peers in other colleges.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## ANNEX  REFEEREED  IN  PART  (a)  OF  THE  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHAUNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3201 ON 12.07.2019

| Sl. No   | Name of the Institute/Laboratory                                                          | Number of posts of scientist s lying vacant   |
|----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
| (1)      | (2)                                                                                       | (3)                                           |
| 1.       | Agharkar Research Institute, Pune                                                         | 21                                            |
| 2.       | Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational- Science, Nainital                         | 28                                            |
| 3.       | Bose Institute, Kolkata                                                                   | 35                                            |
| 4.       | BirbalSahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow                                          | 25                                            |
| 5.       | Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, Bangalore                                       | 08                                            |
| 6.       | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata                                | 33                                            |
| 7.       | Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore                                               | 14                                            |
| 8.       | Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai                                                  | 00                                            |
| 9.       | The Institute of Advanced Study in Science &Technology, Guwahati                          | 04                                            |
| 10.      | Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali                                          | 05                                            |
| 11.      | International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad | 02                                            |
| 12.      | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore                       | 14                                            |
| 13.      | Raman Research Institute, Bangalore                                                       | 00                                            |
| 14.      | SreeChitraTirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram       | 09                                            |
| 15.      | S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata                                     | 17                                            |
| 16.      | Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun                                            | 09                                            |
| 17.      | National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI),Mohali                                  | 92                                            |
| 18.      | Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar                                             | 02                                            |
| 19.      | National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi                                         | 23                                            |
| 20.      | Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali                             | 21                                            |
| 21.      | Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad                           | 05                                            |
| 22.      | National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad                              | 04                                            |
| 23.      | Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad                                        | 16                                            |
| 24.      | Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad                  | 04                                            |
| 25.      | National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar                                            | 14                                            |
| 26.      | National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune                                             | 21                                            |
| 27.      | Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem). Karnataka             | 34                                            |
| 28.      | Institute of Bioresources and SustainableDevelopment (IBSD), Imphal                       | 02                                            |
| 29.      | Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB),Thiruvananthapuram                           | 00                                            |
| 30.      | National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG),West Bengal                             | 08                                            |
| 31.      | National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi                            | 08                                            |
| 32.      | CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal                  | 60                                            |
| 33.      | CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee                                  | 50                                            |
| 34.      | CSIR-Centre for Cellular &Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad                             | 62                                            |
| 35.      | CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow                                      | 65                                            |
| 36.      | CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi                        | 47                                            |
| 37.      | CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani                   | 92                                            |
| 38.      | CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore                        | 111                                           |
| 39.      | CSIR-Central Glass &Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata                           | 57                                            |
| 40.      | CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal &Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow                     | 38                                            |

|   (1) | (2)                                                                                              |   (3) |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|
|    41 | CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad                              |    41 |
|    42 | CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai                                          |    50 |
|    43 | CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur                         |    53 |
|    44 | CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute (CMMACS), Bangalore                                               |   177 |
|    45 | CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi                                           |    38 |
|    46 | CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh                              |    24 |
|    47 | CSIR Head Quarters                                                                               |    92 |
|    48 | CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar                      |    47 |
|    49 | CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi                             |    84 |
|    50 | CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur                              |    34 |
|    51 | CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata                                        |    77 |
|    52 | CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad                                   |   102 |
|    53 | CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu                                      |    95 |
|    54 | CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun                                               |    57 |
|    55 | CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow                                     |    45 |
|    56 | CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar                          |    37 |
|    57 | CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT), Chandigarh                                         |    41 |
|    58 | CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore                                            |    61 |
|    59 | CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow                                       |    47 |
|    60 | CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune                                                    |   123 |
|    61 | CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur                       |    43 |
|    62 | CSIR-North East Institute of Science &Technology (NEIST), Jorhat                                 |    42 |
|    63 | CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad                                   |    46 |
|    64 | CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram |    31 |
|    65 | CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa                                               |   100 |
|    66 | CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Research (NISCAIR), New Delhi   |    48 |
|    67 | CSIR-National Institute of Science (NISTADS), Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi      |    25 |
|    68 | CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur                                         |    49 |
|    69 | CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi                                               |    94 |
|    70 | CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai                                      |    48 |

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