{"id":922,"date":"2016-06-09T04:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T04:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/?page_id=922"},"modified":"2018-08-07T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T07:00:46","slug":"opportunities-for-researchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/?page_id=922","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities For Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Research Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

IRDAI invites proposals, under Research Grant Scheme, for research work in the areas related to policyholder’s protection, consumer education and promoting the orderly growth of the insurance industry. Please visit IRDAl’s website
\nwww.irdai.gov.in<\/a><\/u> or IRDAl’s Consumer Education Website www.policyholder.gov.in<\/a><\/u> for the details of the scheme.<\/p>\n

Interested researchers may submit their proposals to Smt. KGPL Rama Devi, General Manager (Communications Wing), 1st<\/sup> Floor, IRDAI, Sy. No. 115\/1, Financial District, Nanakramguda, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, on or before 5 pm,31.08.2018. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Call for Research Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

Call for research proposals for funding under the Research Component of the Central plan Scheme (CDM) of Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on the following illustrative themes from individuals\/institutions:<\/p>\n

a) Performance of One Person Company (OPC)
\nb) Effectiveness of important provisions of Companies Act, 2013 such as companies incorporated under Section 8 of the Act (Section 25 of Companies Act, 1956)
\nd) Effectiveness of Investor protection and Investor Education
\ne) Performance of Corporates (across states, sector and size etc.)
\nf) Effectiveness of Competition Law and practice
\ng) Corporate Debt structure and leveraging
\nh) Analysis of utilization of funds mobilized by Corporates through IPOs etc.
\ni) Ease of Doing Business: Sub-indices within the ease of doing business index which directly pertains to corporate sector i.e. (i) Starting a business, (ii) protecting minority investors and (iii) insolvency resolution.
\nj) Issues relating to emergence of Producer Companies in India.<\/p>\n

Terms and Conditions<\/strong>:\u00a0 The terms and conditions for funding the research proposals will be according to the MCA Guidelines No. 2\/1\/CDMPS\/R&A dated 17\/1\/2018. The guidelines are placed at\u00a0http:\/\/mca.gov.in\/Ministry\/pdf\/CDMNoticeGuidelines _10042018.pdf\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Receipt of applications<\/strong>: The research proposals shall be posted\/e-mailed to the following in the prescribed format: Shri P.C. Guravaiah, Joint Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, R & A Division, 8th Floor, ‘B’ Wing, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi-l 10003,<\/p>\n

email: cdm.research@mca.gov.in<\/a>, contact no: 011- 24698973<\/p>\n

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Sanction of IMPRINT-II Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

Government of India
\nMinistry of Human Resource Development
\nDepartment of Higher Education
\nTechnical Section-I<\/p>\n

Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi
\nDated: the 12th April, 2018
\nTo,<\/p>\n

(1) The Directors,
\nAll Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs)<\/p>\n

(2) The Vice Chancellors
\nAll Central Universities<\/p>\n

Subject: Sanction of IMPRINT-II Initiative.<\/p>\n

Sir,<\/p>\n

I am directed to convey approval of the Government for implementation of IMPRINT-II with a view to address and provide solutions to the major engineering challenges by translating knowledge into viable technology (products or processes) in (10) selected technology domains, viz. (1) Healthcare, (2) Encrgy, (3) Sustainable Habitat, (4) Nanotechnology Hardware (5) Water Reources and River Systems (6) Advanced Materials, (7) Information and Communication Technology, (8) Manufacturing, (9) Security and Defense, and (10) Environmental Science and Climate Change.<\/p>\n

2. IMPRINT-II will be funded by a corpus jointly set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Department of Science & Technology (DST) as well as contribution from various participating Ministries.
\nThe broad objectives of scheme arc as under:-<\/p>\n

(i) The major translatory intent of IMPRINT-II is to ensure that the scheme leads to development of product or prototype ready for pilot\u00a0scale demonstration\/deployment. IMPRINT-II shall distinguish from other usual R&D projects which lead only to publications\/ patents.<\/p>\n

(ii) Develop products\/processes and viable technologies for addressing the identified challenges in the different domains.<\/p>\n

(iii) Formulate and develop focused translational projects against\u00a0identified technology thrust areas by various stakeholder ministries.<\/p>\n

(iv) Evolve new technology transfer models for enabling technology diffusion to industry and stakeholders.<\/p>\n

(v) Continuously monitor and refine the challenges and gaps in the various technology domains and map the same against the needs and\u00a0strengths of the stakeholder ministries vis-a-vis academic and R&D institutions.
\n3. The detailed guidelines of IMPRINT-II are as under:<\/p>\n

(i) Eligibility:<\/strong> The Scheme is open to all Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFT) and Central Universities (CUs) as Principal
\nInvestigators (PIs), while any other institute\/ university\/industry) organization, publicly or privately funded, may participate as Co-PI.
\nThe IMPRINT-II will encourage joint proposals by the Institutes\/Universities, R&D wings of Ministries to ensure enhanced synergy between agencies and Institutes\/Universities.<\/p>\n

(ii) Submission of proposals:<\/strong> The prospective Principal Investigators (PIs) may submit preliminary project proposals in the prescribed formal within the given time schedule, as indicated on the IMPRINT Portal: www.imprint.in. The following projects will be given priority:-<\/p>\n

a. Projects which address thrust\u00a0Ministries\/Departments, and fall\u00a0IMPRINT.areas identified by the\u00a0in the (10) domains of\u00a0Projects which provide for translational research leading to viable technology, prototype or working model development. Projects with active collaboration with and contribution from industry \/ stakeholder \/ startup, except those having a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

1.1. Administrative structure:<\/strong>
\nScicnce & Engineering Research Board (SERB) under DST will create a separate IMPRINT-SERB Vertical under its overall setup, chaired by thc Secretary, SERB and the National Coordinator of IMPRINT. The Vertical will be responsible for all administrative matters such as call of proposals, preparing the agenda for meetings of Programme Advisory Committees (PACs) and Apex Committee, tracking fund-flow, fund management, UCs and SEs from PI institutions, national level monitoring of the scheme and liaisoning with participating Ministries etc.<\/p>\n

b. All projects received will be uploaded on the IMPRINT portal, to be administered by IMPRINT-SERB Vertical and accessible to
\nall stakeholders (through login ID and password)
\nc. National Coordinator-<\/strong> National Coordinator of IMPRINT-II will liaise with each institution, participating Ministry\/Department or any other organisation, both in public and private sector and will organise the initiative at the field level.
\nIV. Scrutiny and selection:<\/strong>
\na. Blind reviews:<\/strong> IMPRINT-SERRB Vertical will create an Expert Pool comprising experts including those from INAE for vetting\/ reviewing the proposals. This would be the first point of appraisal.
\nb. Programme Advisory Committees (PACs):<\/strong> The second point of evaluation will be done by the 10 Programme Advisory Committees (PACs) one for each domain with Nodal Officers nominated by participating Ministries as well as experts from premier institutions as Members. The PACs would be constituted by the IMPRINT-SERB Vertical, which will scrutinize the projects and recommend them to the Apex Committee for approval.
\nc. Apex Committee-<\/strong> The projects recommended by the PACs will be submitted for final approval of the Apex Committee, co- chaired by Secretary (HE) and Secretary, DST. The Apex Committee will also include one Expert from each domain, Nodal Officers of the participating Ministries, Secretary, SERB and the National Coordinator as Members. Apex Committee will be the highest authority of IMPRINT to approve the projects.The Chairpersons of Apex Committee would be empowered to change the scope, funding pattern, duration, foreclosure, extension, cost escalation of a project [or justifiable reasons, rules\/ guidelines and any other related matter, without having the full Apex Committee meeting in session.
\nFunding:<\/strong> IMPRINT-II will be funded through a Corpus jointly created by MHRD and DST, each contributing an equal share. All Government Ministries\/ Departments arc welcome to contribute to the Corpus for the projects relevant to them as per their thrust areas identified, subject to the following,<\/p>\n

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(a) The average cost of each proposal shall be RS.2 crore with a duration of 3 years.
\n(b) The competent authority has already approved an outlay of Rs.425 crore for the scheme as MHRD share, which includes a
\ncommitted cost of Rs.38.65 crore for IMPRINT-I and Rs.51.35 crore for UAY. Thus the approved outlays from MHRD specifically for IMPRINT-II projects will be Rs.335 crore with an equal share from DST. This will create a dedicated corpus of Rs.670 crore for IMPRINT-II.
\n(c) There will be two calls of proposals, one each 111 2018-19 and 2019-20 with the following approved outlays:<\/p>\n

Funding\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2018-19\u00a0 \u00a0 2019-20\u00a0 Total<\/p>\n

MHRD\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 107.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0228.00\u00a0 \u00a0 335.00<\/p>\n

DST\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0107.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0228.00\u00a0 \u00a0335.00<\/p>\n

Gr.Toatal\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0214.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0456.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0670.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

(d) The projects taken up under first Call in 2018-19 will run for a period of three years till 2020-21 and those taken up in 2019- 20 will run till 2021-22. For each call of proposals, the releases out of approved outlays will spread over three years, generally in the ratio of 50:25:25 of the project cost.
\n(e) The contributions received from the industry and the participating Ministries will be added to the Corpus and will be used as additionality in a particular project or to take up more projects.
\n(f) The participating Ministries\/Departments\/Industry will continue to fund the remaining cost of IMPRINT-I and UAY projects, as accepted by them earlier.
\n(g) There shall be no further call of proposals under IMPRINT\u00b7] and UAY.
\n(h) The Institutional charges shall bc as per standard norms of DST.
\nvi. Standard Operating Procedure:<\/strong> All projects are to be executed as per norms approved by the Board of Governors (BoG), Governing Council (GC) or any other\u00a0competent authority of each participating Institute in terms of\u00a0project execution, procurement of equipment, consumablcs,\u00a0contract of project staff, contingency, travel etc.<\/p>\n

b) Downstream disbursal of funds to partner institutions shall be done using the EAT module of PFMS to ensure that there is no parking of funds.
\nc) The funds will be used primarily for project staff salaries, consumables, contingency expenditure, travel, experiments \/Trials and purchase of small instruments, components and devices. However, no funds will be used for construction of laboratory spaces or purchase of major equipment.
\nd) The partner Ministries may help PIs of IMPRINT-II projects to conduct experiments and trials using the equipment and infrastructure available with them or their agencies.
\ne) It ‘will be the responsibility” of the PI institution to secure Utilization Certificate (UC), Statement of Expenditure (SE) and
\nsend the same in the prescribed format, as stipulated under GFR to the IMPRINT-SERB Vertical.
\nf) The PI institution may consider signing MoU with industry partners, wherever applicable, in order to streamline execution
\nof the project. A copy of the MoU is to. be sent to the IMPRINT- SERB Vertical for records. This MoU may, inter-alia, cover the following aspects<\/p>\n