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REPORT NO. 319 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS THREE HUNDRED NINETEENTH REPORT Action taken by the Government on the Recommendations/Observations contained in the Three Hundred Eleventh Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests on the Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on2 nd January, 2018 ) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on2 nd January, 2018 ) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi January, 2019/Pausa, 1940 (Saka) Website : http://rajyasabha.nic.in E-mail : [email protected] 21 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 NINETEENTH REPORT Action taken by the Government on the Recommendations/Observations contained in the Three Hundred Eleventh Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests on the Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 2nd January, 2018) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 2nd January, 2018) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi January, 2019/Pausa, 1940 (Saka) CONTENTS PAGES 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE ....................................................................................... (i)-(ii) 2. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... (iii) 3. ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................ (iv) 4. REPORT ................................................................................................................................. 1-14 Chapter I : Recommendations/Observations which have been accepted by the Government............................. ................................................. 2-6 Chapter II : Recommendations/Observations which the committee does not desire to pursue in view of the Government’s replies........................... 7-12 Chapter III : Recommendations/Observations in respect of which replies of the Government have not been accepted by the Committee........................ 13 Chapter IV : Recommendations/Observations in respect of which final replies of the Government are still awaited............................. ........................ 14 5. RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS — AT A GLANCE ........................................................... 15 6. MINUTES ............................................................................................................................... 17-19 COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (2018-19) (Constituted on 1st September, 2018) 1. Shri Anand Sharma — Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Shri Prasanna Acharya 3. Shri S.R. Balasubramoniyan 4. Shri Anil Baluni 5. Shri Rajkumar Dhoot 6. Shri Hishey Lachungpa 7. Dr. Raghunath Mohapatra 8. Shri Parimal Nathwani 9. Shri Sharad Pawar 10. Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy LOK SABHA 11. Maulana Badruddin Ajmal 12. Shri Muzaffar Hussain Baig 13. Shri E.T. Mohammed Basheer 14. Shri Prabhatsinh Pratapsinh Chauhan 15. Kumari Sushmita Dev 16. Shri Ninong Ering 17. Shri Laxman Giluwa 18. Dr. K. Gopal 19. Shri Sunil Kumar Jakhar 20. Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik 21. Shrimati Vasanthi M. 22. Shri Daddan Mishra 23. Shri Chirag Paswan 24. Shri Shivaji Adhalrao Patil 25. Shri Hari Narayan Rajbhar 26. Shrimati Sandhya Roy 27. Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh 28. Shri Vikram Usendi 29. Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava #30. Vacant #31. Vacant # Shri Raghu Sharma and Shri Nagendra Singh ceased to be members of the Committee consequent upon their resignation from the Lok Sabha w.e.f. 21st December, 2018. (i) (ii) SECRETARIAT Shrimati Sunita Sekaran, Joint Secretary Shri T. N. Pandey, Director Shri S. Rangarajan, Additional Director Shri Mohd. Salamuddin, Additional Director Shri Rajiv Saxena, Under Secretary Shri Harish Kumar, Assistant Committee Officer 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 Nineteenth Report on Action Taken by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on the Recommendations/Observations contained in the Three Hundred and Eleventh Report of the Committee on Demands for Grants (2018-19) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was presented/laid in both the Houses of Parliament on 13th March, 2018. 2. There were 23 Recommendations/Observations in the Three Hundred Eleventh Report of the Committee. Action Taken Notes on the Recommendations/Observations of the Committee were received from the Department on 20th June, 2018. 3. In the meeting held on 27th December, 2018, the Committee considered the draft Report and adopted the same. ANAND SHARMA NEW DELHI; Chairman, 27th December, 2018 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Pausa 6, 1940 (Saka) Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, Rajya Sabha. (iii) ACRONYMS ATN : Action Taken Note AT R : Action Taken Report B.E. : Budget Estimate CDC : Consultancy Development Centre CEL : Central Electronics Limited CSIR : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR-NEERI : CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute CSIR-NEIST : CSIR-North-East Institute of Science and Technology DBT : Department of Biotechnology DSIR : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research DST : Department of Science and Technology EDP : Engineering Design Package FTC : Fast Track Commercialization FTT : Fast Track Translation GDP : Gross Domestic Product HAL : Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ICMR : Indian Council of Medical Research MHRD : Ministry of Human Resource Development MoU : Memorandum of Understanding MSDE : Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship MSMEs : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises NML : National Metallurgical Laboratory NRDC : National Research Development Corporation NSFDC : National Scheduled Caste Finance Development Cooperation PACE : Patent Acquisition and Collaborative Research and Technology Development R&D : Research & Development R.E. : Revised Estimate SDGs : Sustainable Development Goals SIROs : Scientific and Industrial Research Organizations TKDL : Traditional Knowledge Digital Library PFRIs : Public Funded Research Institutions (iv) REPORT The Action Taken Report (ATR) of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on the Recommendations/Observations contained in Three Hundred Eleventh Report of the Committee on ‘Demands for Grants (2018-2019) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research’. The Report was presented to Rajya Sabha and laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on the 13th March, 2018. 2. Action Taken Note (ATN) has been received from Department of Scientific and Industrial Research’ in respect of all the twenty three Recommendations/Observations contained in the Three Hundred Eleventh Report. This has been categorized as follows:- Chapter I : Recommendations/Observations which have been accepted by the Government: Para: 3.2, 5.7, 7.5, 9.4, 9.7, 9.14, 9.15, 11.3, 12.3, 13.4, 13.6 and 15.5. (TOTAL – 12) Chapter II : Recommendations/Observations which the Committee does not desire to pursue in view of the Government’s replies: Para: 4.10, 5.6, 6.6, 8.7, 9.16, 10.7, 10.8, 14.7, 15.3 and 15.4. (TOTAL – 10) The Committee is convinced with the explanation furnished by the Department and, therefore, does not want to pursue above-mentioned recommendations further. Chapter III : Recommendations/Observations in respect of which replies of the Government have not been accepted by the Committee: Para: (TOTAL - Nil) Chapter IV : Recommendations/Observations in respect of which final replies of the Government are still awaited: Para: 16.4. (TOTAL - 1) 3. The Committee desires that the Department should furnish the updated information regarding the paragraph mentioned in Chapter IV of the Report. 4. The details of the ATR have been discussed in the respective Chapters in the succeeding pages. 1 CHAPTER-I RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE DEPARTMENT Recommendation/Observation 1.1 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. (Para 3.2) Action Taken 1.2 The Department takes note of the Committee’s recommendation of periodic monitoring on quarterly basis for optimum utilization of allocated funds. It is submitted that against a RE (2017-18) allocation of ` 4629.70 crore, actual utilization during 2017-18 was ` 4618.83 crore. PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS - NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (NRDC) Recommendation/ Observation