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GENERAL INFORMATION AND FORMAT
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Involvements of industries
It is envisaged that the end product of development shall be transferred to industries for commercial production. Hence industry (s) are required to be associated with each project right from the beginning with financial contribution of the total cost of the project .
In addition to the above to encourage the industry so that industry could undertake R&D in the field of instrumentation. Support to industry could be extended in many forms such as (i) providing grant for supporting equipment only : (ii) sharing cost of the research programme on 50:50 basis; (iii) providing loan on soft terms; and (iv) conditional grant etc. Industry in turn may associate national institutions/ academic institutions, as they consider relevant, to complete the project. The Board considered various pros and cons of the options and decided that for R&D projects to be undertaken by industry having recognized R&D laboratories, the department may provide 50% of the cost of the consumables to the industries, to begin with. If the programme is a joint programme with an institution, in addition to the 50% of the cost of consumables to the industry, the department may support the institution for the equipment. The rest of the cost both at the institution and industry is to be funded by the industry. The IPR, in any case, will be shared by the industry.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE GRANT
1. The Institution where project will be implemented, will assume financial and other administrative responsibilities of the project.
2. In case of multi-institutional project the Principal Investigator has to obtain formal agreement from the collaborating institutions/scientists.
3. International travel is normally not permissible under the project.
4. The manpower recruited for the project should be paid as per the rules of the institute and guidelines of the Government of India. (Please see page 6). The posts which are not covered under the guidelines but permissible under projects at host institute are also permitted.