Lok Sabha Question No. 2929 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-17
Subject: Student Project Programme
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shri G M Harish Balayogi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

## DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2929

## ANSWERED ON 17/12/2025

## STUDENT PROJECT PROGRAMME

## 2929.  SHRI G M HARISH BALAYOGI:

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

- (a) the details of the total number of State Science and Technology (S&T) Councils supported under State Science & Technology Programme,  State  and  district-wise  in  Andhra  Pradesh  especially Konaseema district;
- (b) the details of the amount of grants allocated and released to States  under  this  programme,  State,  year-wise  since  the  scheme's inception;
- (c) the total number of SC/ST Cells supported under this programme, classified State-wise and district-wise for Andhra Pradesh, especially in Konaseema District;
- (d) the  details  of  total  number  of  students  supported  under  the Student Project Programme of the said programme, State-wise and year-wise during the last five years; and
- (e) the details of the projects supported under the scheme along with  the  financial  assistance  sanctioned  and  disbursed,  State-wise and year-wise over the last five years?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The  Department  of  Science  and  Technology  (DST),  under  its State Science and Technology Programme (SSTP), nurtures CentreState Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation through support to S&T Secretariat of State/Union Territory (UT) Science & Technology Councils. The list of currently supported 27 State S&T Councils is given in the table below:

|   S. No. | Name of State/UT   | Name of S&T Council                                   |
|----------|--------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh     | Andhra Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology |

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|   S. No. | Name of State/UT   | Name of S&T Council                                                      |
|----------|--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh  | Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology                 |
|        3 | Assam              | Assam Science Technology & Environment Council                           |
|        4 | Bihar              | Bihar State Science and Technology Council                               |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh       | Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology                             |
|        6 | Goa                | Goa State Council of Science & Technology                                |
|        7 | Gujarat            | Gujarat Council on Science and Technology                                |
|        8 | Haryana            | Haryana State Council for Science & Technology                           |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh   | State Council for Science & Technology and Environment, Himachal Pradesh |
|       10 | Karnataka          | Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology                       |
|       11 | Kerala             | Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment               |
|       12 | Maharashtra        | Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission                             |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh     | Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology                           |
|       14 | Manipur            | Manipur Science & Technology Council                                     |
|       15 | Meghalaya          | State Council for Science & Technology and Environment, Meghalaya        |
|       16 | Mizoram            | Mizoram Science, Technology and Innovation Council                       |
|       17 | Nagaland           | Nagaland State Science and Technology Council                            |
|       18 | Punjab             | Punjab State Council for Science and Technology                          |

|   S. No. | Name of State/UT   | Name of S&T Council                                |
|----------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
|       19 | Rajasthan          | Rajasthan Council of Science & Technology          |
|       20 | Sikkim             | Sikkim State Council of Science & Technology       |
|       21 | Tamil Nadu         | Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology  |
|       22 | Telangana          | Telangana State Council of Science & Technology    |
|       23 | Tripura            | Tripura State Council for Science & Technology     |
|       24 | Uttar Pradesh      | Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh   |
|       25 | Uttarakhand        | Uttarakhand State Council for Science & Technology |
|       26 | West Bengal        | West Bengal State Council for Science & Technology |
|       27 | Puducherry         | Puducherry Council for Science and Technology      |

- (b) The details of funds sanctioned and released to S&T Councils towards  assistance  to  their  S&T  Secretariat  under  SSTP  since financial year 2016-17 is given at Annexure.
- (c) The Department has established Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) Cells at 11 State S&T Councils under the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan/Tribal Sub Plan of the Science for Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED) Division, DST for systemic mapping  of  livelihood  system  of  SC/ST  Communities.  There  is  no SC/ST cell at Andhra Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology. List of supported SC/ST Cells is given as below:
1. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
2. Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment
3. Punjab State Council for Science & Technology
4. Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology
5. Telangana State Council of Science & Technology
6. West Bengal State Council of Science & Technology
7. Tripura State Council for Science & Technology
8. Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science and Technology

9. Mizoram Science, Technology & Innovation Council
10. Sikkim State Council of Science & Technology
11. Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology

(d) to (e): During the last five years, an amount of Rs. 41.90 Lakhs was released (financial year 2022-23) to Karnataka State Council for Science  and  Technology  under  SSTP  to  implement  the  Student Project Programme. Across this period (2020-21 to 2024-25), 26,038 students in Karnataka were supported, distributed as follows: 4,413 in 2020-21, 4,515 in 2021-22, 5,519 in 2022-23, 5,453 in 2023-24, and 6,138 in 2024-25.

## Annexure

## Sanctioned and released amount to S&T Councils towards assistance to their S&T Secretariat

(In Rs Lakhs)

|   S. No. | Name of State/UT                                         | FY 2016-17   |   FY 2017-18 |   FY 2018-19 |   FY 2019-20 | FY 2020-21   | FY 2021-22   |   FY 2022-23 | FY 2023-24   | FY 2024-25   | Total    |
|----------|----------------------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------|
|        1 | Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology | 184.96       |       126.76 |       139.44 |       102.51 | 102.51       | 108.51       |       106.51 | 105.01       | Nil          | 976.21   |
|        2 | Assam Science Technology & Environment Council           | 200.92       |       152.72 |       116.65 |       183.35 | 183.35       | 183.35       |       139.26 | 139.76       | Nil          | 1,299.36 |
|        3 | Andhra Pradesh State Council of Science and              | Nil          |        43.55 |        47.91 |        49.03 | 37.44        | Nil          |        48.93 | 52.43        | Nil          | 279.29   |
|        4 | Bihar Council on Science & Technology                    | 43.00        |        42    |        33.13 |        51.82 | Nil          | 5.18         |        30.09 | 28.09        | Nil          | 233.31   |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology             | 134.22       |       106.02 |       111.8  |       122.11 | 121.12       | 123.12       |       127.12 | 125.59       | 157.2        | 1,128.30 |
|        6 | Goa State Council for Science & Technology               | 76.84        |        69.64 |        59.54 |        84.65 | 82.65        | 84.65        |        88.65 | 87.15        | Nil          | 633.77   |
|        7 | Gujarat Council on Science and Technology                | 125.20       |        67    |        72.67 |        81.52 | 81.52        | 81.52        |        87.52 | 84.02        | 106.9        | 787.87   |
|        8 | Haryana State Council for Science & Technology           | 56.53        |        34.27 |        23.41 |        35.72 | 23.49        | 27.15        |        28.72 | Nil          | Nil          | 229.29   |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh State Council for Science, Technology & | 165.12       |       104.72 |        99.77 |       118.73 | 117.54       | 34.01        |        91.49 | 90.5         | Nil          | 821.88   |

|   S. No. | Name of State/UT                                                 | FY 2016-17   |   FY 2017-18 |   FY 2018-19 |   FY 2019-20 |   FY 2020-21 | FY 2021-22   | FY 2022-23   |   FY 2023-24 | FY 2024-25   | Total    |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------|
|       10 | Karnataka State Council for Science & Technology                 | 185.20       |       127    |       138.09 |       150.8  |       152.8  | 150.8        | 156.8        |       155.3  | 193.5        | 1,410.29 |
|       11 | Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment     | Nil          |       188    |       191.69 |        97.67 |       108.12 | 106.72       | 116.12       |       112.41 | Nil          | 920.73   |
|       12 | Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission,                    | 94.80        |        37.8  |         1    |        45.8  |        35    | 45.00        | 49.00        |        43.05 | Nil          | 351.45   |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology, Madhya           | 208.55       |       150.35 |       165.39 |       180.54 |       180.54 | 178.54       | 184.54       |       183.04 | Nil          | 1,431.49 |
|       14 | Manipur Science & Technology Council                             | 145.94       |       111.14 |       106.21 |       137.52 |       135.52 | 137.52       | 141.4        |       140.02 | 176.9        | 1,232.17 |
|       15 | State Council of Science, Technology, and Environment, Meghalaya | 53.80        |        32.72 |        10.16 |        40.64 |        30.24 | 30.67        | 36.39        |        34.89 | Nil          | 269.51   |
|       16 | Mizoram Science, Technology & Innovation Council                 | 115.20       |        83    |        91.3  |       100.52 |       100.52 | 100.52       | 104.52       |        86.56 | 115.34       | 897.48   |
|       17 | Nagaland Science and Technology Council                          | 136.20       |        77.97 |        85.71 |        94.58 |        94.58 | 94.58        | 98.58        |        97.08 | Nil          | 779.28   |
|       18 | Punjab State Council for Science & Technology                    | 233.76       |       150.56 |       194.22 |       165.6  |       163.6  | 141.96       | 169.6        |       168.1  | Nil          | 1,387.40 |
|       19 | Rajasthan Council of Science & Technology                        | 156.00       |       156    |       171.6  |       187.25 |       137.04 | Nil          | Nil          |       185.25 | Nil          | 993.14   |

| S. No.      | Name of State/UT                                    | FY 2016-17                                                                  | FY 2017-18                                                                  | FY 2018-19                                                                  | FY 2019-20                                                                  | FY 2020-21                                                                  | FY 2021-22                                                                  | FY 2022-23                                                                  | FY 2023-24                                                                  | FY 2024-25                                                                  | Total                                                                       |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 20          | Sikkim State Council of Science and Technology      | 135.80                                                                      | 86.46                                                                       | 47.69                                                                       | 104.63                                                                      | 78.24                                                                       | 82.76                                                                       | 88.76                                                                       | 87.21                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | 711.55                                                                      |
| 21          | Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology   | 136.88                                                                      | 104.72                                                                      | 115.19                                                                      | 69.03                                                                       | 72.87                                                                       | 88                                                                          | 94                                                                          | 92.5                                                                        | 106.24                                                                      | 879.43                                                                      |
| 22          | Telangana State Council of Science &                | 131.20                                                                      | 31.45                                                                       | 21.18                                                                       | 39.28                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | 11.32                                                                       | 4.5                                                                         | 57.14                                                                       | 296.07                                                                      |
| 23          | Technology Tripura State Council for Science &      | 63.00                                                                       | 62.00                                                                       | 67.20                                                                       | 75.58                                                                       | 73.58                                                                       | 75.58                                                                       | 79.38                                                                       | 82.08                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | 578.40                                                                      |
| 24          | Technology Council of Science & Technology, Uttar   | 150.20                                                                      | Nil                                                                         | 165.22                                                                      | 130.36                                                                      | 44.28                                                                       | 87.27                                                                       | 90.26                                                                       | 90.76                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | 758.35                                                                      |
| 25          | Uttarakhand State Council for Science & Technology  | 147.80                                                                      | 95.00                                                                       | 104.50                                                                      | 114.77                                                                      | 112.78                                                                      | 104.15                                                                      | 118.78                                                                      | 116.68                                                                      | Nil                                                                         | 914.46                                                                      |
| 26          | West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology | 90.20                                                                       | 32.00                                                                       | 0.00                                                                        | 39.94                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | 13.2                                                                        | 23.96                                                                       | 21.3                                                                        | Nil                                                                         | 220.6                                                                       |
| 27          | Puducherry State Council for Science & Technology   | 21.67                                                                       | 11.50                                                                       | 9.85                                                                        | 25.92                                                                       | 23.92                                                                       | 23.2                                                                        | 24.37                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | 140.43                                                                      |
| 28          | Andaman and Nicobar Science & Technology Council    | 55.40                                                                       | 20.20                                                                       | 22.22                                                                       | 12.88                                                                       | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | Nil                                                                         | 110.7                                                                       |
| Grand Total | Grand Total                                         | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 | 3248.39 2304.55 2412.742642.752293.25 2107.962336.072413.28 913.22 20672.21 |

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