Lok Sabha Question No. 2829 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-07
Subject: Budgets/Funds to ICSSR
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Upendra Singh Rawat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2829 ANSWERED ON 07.08.2023

## Budgets/Funds to ICSSR

## 2829. Shri Upendra Singh Rawat :

Will the Minister of Education be pleased to state:

- (a) the Annual Budget of the Indian Council of Social Science Research during the last three years and current year, year-wise and its utilisation;
- (b) the funding given by ICSSR to its supported institutes in the country, particularly Uttar Pradesh during the last three years and current year, year-wise and institutewise;
- (c) the  time  by  when  the  institutes  are  likely  to  be  accorded  Seventh  Pay Commission benefits and the expected annual budgetary burden; and
- (d) whether the ICSSR is using its power to grant approval of  posts, recruitment and  clearances  to  the  autonomy  of  this  institution  in  Uttar  Pradesh  and  if  so,  the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (DR. SUBHAS SARKAR)

- (a) The annual income and expenditure of the Indian Council of Social Science Research  (ICSSR)  as  per  the  audited  annual  financial  statements  of  the  institute during the last three years is given below:

(Rs. Crore)

| Financial Year (FY)   |   Annual Income | Annual Expenditure   |   Grant-in-aid release by the Ministry |
|-----------------------|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------------|
| 2020-21               |           110.1 | 266.4*               |                                  109.9 |
| 2021-22               |           133.5 | 146.9                |                                  129.9 |
| 2022-23               |           152   | 134.5                |                                  146.4 |

In  the  first  quarter  of  2023-24,  the  Department  of  Higher  Education  has released Rs. 37.65 crore as grant-in-aid to the  ICSSR. The institute  has  informed that they have spent Rs. 30.64 crore during the same period.

(b) Details  of  the  year-wise  &  institute-wise  funding  given  by  the  ICSSR  to  its supported institutes in the country, including those in Uttar Pradesh, during the last three years and the first quarter of current year, may be accessed at https://www.education.gov.in/parl\_ques.

(c) & (d) In  order  to  promote  social  science  research  in  India,  24  Research Institutes across India, created either by a group of Individuals under the Societies Registration Act, 1960, or as a public trust, or created by an Act of State Legislature, are being assisted through grant-in-aid by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Delhi under the 'Rules of Grants-in-aid to Societies and Institutions doing Research in the field of Social Sciences, 1971' revised from time to time provided that they fulfil all procedures and conditions laid down in the aforementioned rules. Accordingly, a committee has been constituted for examining the applicability of 7 th Central Pay Commission recommendations to these Research Institutes as per the provisions of aforementioned rules. ICSSR does not intervene in the autonomy of the Research Institutes funded by it.

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