Lok Sabha Question No. 2349 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-16
Subject: SERB-Power Scheme
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2349 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.03.2022

## SERB POWER SCHEME

## 2349. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ǒव£ान और Ĥौƭोिगकȧ मंğी be pleased to state:

- (a) the  number  of  grants  that  have  been  given  under  the  Science  and Engineering Research Board POWER scheme (SERB-POWER scheme) since its inception upto February, 2022, State-wise, down to district level for Rajasthan;
- (b) the details of the areas of research and institutions granted with funds under the SERB-POWER scheme, area and year-wise;
- (c) whether  any  special  provisions  have  been  made  for  institutions  of national eminence, and the total disbursements to all such institutions since the inception of the SERB-POWER scheme, if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the list of maternity and paternity leave policies at institutions of national eminence with details of period of paid leaves, health care benefits, etc; and
- (e) whether the Government plans to disburse funds to add non-academic perks like housing, transport and medical help, family care and health care for children under employment contracts of institutes of national eminence and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

ǒव£ान और Ĥौƭोिगकȧ तथा पृØवी ǒव£ान मंğालय क े राÏय मंğी ( èवतंğ Ĥभार)

( डॉ. ǔजतɅġ िसंह )

- (a) Sir,  the number of grants that have been given under the Science and Engineering Research Board POWER scheme (SERB-POWER scheme) since its inception upto February, 2022, State-wise (including the state of Rajasthan)

|   S. No. | State/UT            |   FY 2020-21 |   FY 2021-22 |
|----------|---------------------|--------------|--------------|
|        1 | Andaman and Nicobar |            0 |            0 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh      |            0 |            1 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh   |            0 |            0 |
|        4 | Assam               |            0 |            3 |
|        5 | Bihar               |            0 |            0 |

| 6     | Chandigarh             |   0 |   1 |
|-------|------------------------|-----|-----|
| 7     | Chhattisgarh           |   0 |   1 |
| 8     | Dadra and Nagar Haveli |   0 |   0 |
| 9     | Daman and Diu          |   0 |   0 |
| 10    | Delhi                  |   0 |   5 |
| 11    | Goa                    |   0 |   0 |
| 12    | Gujarat                |   0 |   2 |
| 13    | Haryana                |   0 |   1 |
| 14    | Himachal Pradesh       |   0 |   0 |
| 15    | Jammu and Kashmir      |   0 |   0 |
| 16    | Jharkhand              |   0 |   0 |
| 17    | Karnataka              |   0 |  13 |
| 18    | Kerala                 |   0 |   2 |
| 19    | Ladakh                 |   0 |   0 |
| 20    | Lakshadweep            |   0 |   0 |
| 21    | Madhya Pradesh         |   0 |   4 |
| 22    | Maharashtra            |   0 |   8 |
| 23    | Manipur                |   0 |   0 |
| 24    | Meghalaya              |   0 |   0 |
| 25    | Mizoram                |   0 |   0 |
| 26    | Nagaland               |   0 |   0 |
| 27    | Odisha                 |   0 |   6 |
| 28    | Puducherry             |   0 |   1 |
| 29    | Punjab                 |   0 |   6 |
| 30    | Rajasthan              |   0 |   0 |
| 31    | Sikkim                 |   0 |   0 |
| 32    | Tamil Nadu             |   1 |  12 |
| 33    | Telangana              |   0 |   8 |
| 34    | Tripura                |   0 |   0 |
| 35    | Uttar Pradesh          |   1 |   7 |
| 36    | Uttarakhand            |   0 |   6 |
| 37    | West Bengal            |   0 |   8 |
| Total | Total                  |   2 |  95 |

## (b) SERB-POWER scheme is detailed below, areas of research of and yearwise:

|                              | No. of grants in   | No. of grants in   |
|------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Areas of research            | FY 2020-21         | FY 2021-22         |
| Engineering Sciences         | 1                  | 37                 |
| Life Sciences                | 1                  | 33                 |
| Chemical Sciences            | 0                  | 11                 |
| Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | 0                  | 3                  |
| Mathematical Sciences        | 0                  | 3                  |
| Physical Sciences            | 0                  | 8                  |
| Total                        | 2                  | 95                 |

The details of the institutions whose individual women scientists are granted with funds on a competitive peer review basis, are enlisted as follows:

|   S. No. | Name of Institute funded                                           |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Amity University                                                   |
|        2 | Amity University Lucknow                                           |
|        3 | Anna University                                                    |
|        4 | Ashoka University                                                  |
|        5 | Assam Agricultural University                                      |
|        6 | B.M.S. College of Engineering                                      |
|        7 | Banaras Hindu University                                           |
|        8 | Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus   |
|        9 | Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics                      |
|       10 | Centurion University of Technology and Management                  |
|       11 | CSIR Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute                  |
|       12 | CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology                          |
|       13 | CSIR Structural Engineering Research Centre                        |
|       14 | DeenDayalUpadhyay Gorakhpur University                             |
|       15 | Director of Instruction, College of Sericulture                    |
|       16 | Doon University                                                    |
|       17 | Fakir Mohan University                                             |
|       18 | G.M.R. Institute of Technology                                     |
|       19 | Guru Gobind Singh IndraprasthaVishwavidyalaya                      |
|       20 | Guru Nanak Dev University                                          |
|       21 | ICAR - Indian Institute Of Rice Research                           |
|       22 | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science                  |
|       23 | Indian Institute of Science                                        |
|       24 | Indian Institute of Science Education And Research (IISER) Kolkata |
|       25 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal          |
|       26 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali         |
|       27 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay                              |
|       28 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi                               |
|       29 | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati                            |
|       30 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur                              |
|       31 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras                              |
|       32 | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee                             |
|       33 | Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar                        |
|       34 | Indian Institute of Technology, Indore                             |
|       35 | Indian Institute of Technology,Dharwad                             |
|       36 | Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi                           |
|       37 | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology                   |
|       38 | Indrashil University                                               |
|       39 | Institute of Chemical Technology Bhubaneswar                       |
|       40 | Institute of Nano Science and Technology                           |
|       41 | International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore        |
|       42 | Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology                         |
|       43 | Kasturba Health Society-Medical Research Centre                    |
|       44 | Kumaun University                                                  |

|   45 | L. V. Prasad Eye Institute                                 |
|------|------------------------------------------------------------|
|   46 | MS Ramaiah College of Arts Science and Commerce            |
|   47 | National Centre for Biological Sciences                    |
|   48 | National Institute of Advanced Studies                     |
|   49 | National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases         |
|   50 | National Institute of Hydrology                            |
|   51 | National Institute of Plant Genome Research                |
|   52 | National Institute of Science Education and Research       |
|   53 | National Institute of Technology Silchar                   |
|   54 | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli           |
|   55 | National Institute of Technology, Raipur                   |
|   56 | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela                 |
|   57 | Panjab University                                          |
|   58 | Pondicherry Engineering College                            |
|   59 | Punjab Agricultural University                             |
|   60 | Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences                     |
|   61 | SASTRA Deemed to be University                             |
|   62 | SavitribaiPhule Pune University                            |
|   63 | Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women      |
|   64 | Sree Narayana College, Nattika                             |
|   65 | Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research |
|   66 | Sri Sairam Engineering College                             |
|   67 | SSN College of Engineering                                 |
|   68 | St. Johns Medical College                                  |
|   69 | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad           |
|   70 | Tata Institute of Social Sciences                          |
|   71 | Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology               |
|   72 | University of Hyderabad                                    |
|   73 | University of Kerala                                       |
|   74 | Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)                      |
|   75 | Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Bhopal University    |
|   76 | Visva-Bharati University                                   |
|   77 | Vision Research Foundation                                 |

## (c)  There is no special provisions have been made for institutions of national eminence. Total disbursements to all such institutions is as follows:

|   Total no of projects | Total sanctioned amount   | Total released amount   |
|------------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|
|                     16 | 6.1 Cr                    | 3.7 Cr                  |

(d) & (e) Employees of institutes of national eminence are already entitled to  benefits  like  maternity  and  paternity  leave,  health  care,  accommodation, transport etc. as per the extant rules and regulations.

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