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REPORT NO. 311 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS THREE HUNDRED ELEVENTH REPORT Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Demand No. 86) (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 13th March, 2018) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 13th March, 2018) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi March, 2018/Phalguna, 1939 (Saka) Website : http://rajyasabha.nic.in E-mail : [email protected] Hindi version of this publication is also available PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS THREE HUNDRED ELEVENTH REPORT Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Demand No. 86) (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 13th March, 2018) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 13th March, 2018) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi March, 2018/Phalguna, 1939 (Saka) CONTENTS PAGES 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE............................................................................ (i)-(ii) 2. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................... (iii) 3. ACRONYMS............................................................................................................ (iv)-(V) 4. REPORT................................................................................................................ 1-29 5. RECOMMENATIONS/OBSERVATIONS— AT A GLANCE......................................................... 30-35 6. MINUTES.............................................................................................................. 37-43 COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (2017-18) (Constituted on 1st September, 2017) 1. Shri Anand Sharma — Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Shri Prasanna Acharya 3. Shri S. R. Balasubramoniyan 4. Shrimati Renuka Chowdhury 5. Shri Rajkumar Dhoot 6. Shri C. P. Narayanan 7. Shri Parimal Nathwani 8. Shri Sharad Pawar 9. Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy 10. Shri Bhupender Yadav LOK SABHA 11. Maulana Badruddin Ajmal 12. Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig 13. Shri E. T. Mohammed Basheer 14. Shri Pankaj Chaudhary 15. Shri P. P. Chauhan 16. Kumari Sushmita Dev 17. Shri Ninong Ering 18. Shri Laxman Giluwa 19. Dr. K. Gopal 20 Shrimati Vasanthi M. 21. Shri Daddan Mishra 22. Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava 23. Shri Chirag Paswan (i) 24. Shri Shivaji A. Patil 25. Shri Harinarayan Rajbhar 26. Shrimati Sandhya Roy 27. Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh 28. Shri Nagendra Singh 29. Shri Vikram Usendi 130. Vacant 231. Vacant SECRETARIAT Shrimati Sunita Sekaran, Director Shri T. N. Pandey, Director Shri S. Rangarajan, Additional Director Shri Mohd. Salamuddin, Additional Director Shri Rajiv Saxena, Under Secretary 1 Shri Nagendra Kumar Pradhan ceased to be a member of the Committee w.e.f. 12th December, 2017. 2 Shri Nana Patole ceased to be a member of the Committee consequent upon his resignation from the Lok Sabha w.e.f. 14th December, 2017. (ii) INTRODUCTION I, the Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, having been authorised by the Committee to present the Report on its behalf, present this Three Hundred Eleventh Report of the Committee. This Report deals with the detailed Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Demand No.86). 2. In the meeting of the Committee held on the 13th February, 2018, the Secretary and other officers of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research gave an overview of the various activities of the Department and the Members sought clarifications on various aspects of the performance of the Department to enable it to scrutinise the Demands for Grants. 3. The Committee expresses its thanks to the officers of the Department for replying to the clarifications sought by the Members and placing before it the required material to enable the Committee to scrutinise the Demands for Grants of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 4. The Committee considered and adopted the Report in its meeting held on the 6th March, 2018. NEW DELHI; ANAND SHARMA 6 March, 2018 Chairman, Phalguna 15, 1939 (Saka) Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, Rajya Sabha. (iii) ACRONMYS APCTT : Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology APSCCFC : Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Caste Co-operative Finance Corporation Ltd. ASCI : Agricultural Skill Council of India BE : Budget Estimate BIRD-CRF : Building Industrial Research & Development - Common Research Facilities CDC : Consultancy Development Centre CEL : Central Electronics Ltd. CII : Confederation of Indian Industry CSIR : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR-CCMB : CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology CSIR-CMERI : CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute CSIR-IGIB : CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology CSIR-IICB : CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology CSIR-IIIM : CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine CSIR-IMT : CSIR - Institute of Microbial Technology. CSIR-NCL : CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory CSIR-NEIST : CSIR- North East Institute of Science and Technology CSIR-URDIP : CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products DSIR : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research EDP : Entrepreneurship Development Programme GBP : Guwahati Biotech Park IPR : Intellectual Property Rights MSMEs : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MTCC : Microbial Type Culture collection (iv) NET : National Eligibility Test NRDC : National Research Development Corporation PACE : Patent Acquisition and Collaborative Research and Technology Development PDTC ; Programme for Development of Technologies for Commercialisation PIII ; Programme for Inspiring Inventors and Innovators PRISM : Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs R&D : Research and Development RE : Revised Estimate SCA : Sickle Cell Anemia SDGs : Sustainable Development Goals SHG : Self Help Group SRF : Senior Research Fellowships TDD : Technology Development and Demonstration TKDL : Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (v) REPORT MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH 1.1 The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is one of the three Departments of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The mandate of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research includes promotion of industrial research through indigenous technology promotion, development, utilization and transfer. 1.2 The primary endeavour of DSIR is to foster development of state-of-the-art technologies and products through Research and Development (R&D), encourage industry to increase their share in the country's R&D expenditure, support industrial units in developing competitive technologies of high commercial potential, catalyze faster commercialization of laboratory-scale R&D, and strengthen consultancy and technology management capabilities. 1.3 The DSIR has two Public Sector Undertakings viz. National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and Central Electronics Ltd. (CEL) and two autonomous institutions viz. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Consultancy Development Centre (CDC). The Department also provides host facilities and assistance to Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT) as the focal point in the country. 2. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests considered the Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in its meeting held on 13th February, 2018. 3. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE DEPARTMENT: 3.1 A chart showing the BE and RE allocation made and actual expenditure incurred by the Department during 2015-16, 2016-17,2017-18 and allocation made in 2018-19 of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is as under: (` in crore) Year B.E. R.E. Actual Expenditure Percentage Utilisation (B.E) 2015-16 4031.00 4036.70 4028.57 99.93 2016-17 4062.80 4062.80 4051.68 99.72 2017-18 4446.00 4629.70 3759.04 84.54 (upto 31.01.2018) 2018-19 4795.97 - - - 2 3.2 The Committee finds that financial performance of the Department has been by and large satisfactory in the past years. However, the Committee notes that during 2017-18, the Department could utilize only ` 3759.04 crore as on 31st January, 2018 against the allocated amount of ` 4629.70 crore (RE 2017-18), which means that an amount of ` 870.66 crore still has to be utilized with two months left in the current financial year. The Committee therefore recommends that with periodic monitoring on quarterly basis, optimum utilization of allocated funds may be ensured. 4. SCHEMES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH 4.1 The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research intimated that during 2018-19 under Umbrella Scheme "Industrial Research and Development", it will be pursuing the following Schemes: (i) Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs (PRISM): Under this programme, financial assistance is extended to the independent innovators for converting innovative ideas into demonstrable working models/prototypes/processes that may take the form of new or improved products, processes, or services and assist them to become incubatees/techno-entrepreneurs. 4.2 The BE and RE allocation made and actual expenditure incurred by the