CSIR ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE Society President: Prime Minister Vice President: Minister of Science & Technology Governing Body Advisory Director Performance Board General Appraisal Boards CSIR HQ. Management Laboratories (38) Research Council Head: Director Council CSIR CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Resource Base and Performance Indicators 15 1.0 S&T CONTRIBUTIONS 1.1 Biological Sciences 21 1.2 Chemical Sciences 42 1.3 Engineering Sciences 64 1.4 Information Sciences 82 1.5 Physical Sciences 85 1.6 CSIR-800 101 2.0 CENTRAL MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES 2.1 CSIR Society 109 2.2 Governing Body 110 2.3 CSIR Foundation Day 111 2.4 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes 118 2.5 CSIR Young Scientist Awards 121 2.6 CSIR Technology Awards 123 2.7 Launching of Anti-Arthrities Herbal Drug 124 2.8 CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) 124 2.9 CSIR Diamond Jubilee Technology Award, (CDJTA) 125 2.10 CSIR Innovation Award for School Children 126 2.11 AcSIR Convocation Ceremony 126 2.12 GN Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological 127 Sciences & Technology 3.0 HEADQUARTERS ACTIVITIES 3.1 Planning and Performance Division (PPD) 131 3.2 Human Resource Development Group (HRDG) 142 3.3 Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) 144 3.4 Innovation Protection Unit (IPU) 146 3.5 International S&T Affairs Directorate (ISTAD) 146 3.6 Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) 149 3.7 Unit for Science Dissemination (USD) 150 3.8 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) 152 CS IR Annual Report 2012-2013 4.0 DATELINE CSIR 159 ANNEXURES I Awards Recognitions 167 II Human Resource Development 171 III Area-wise Research Publications 177 IV CSIR Patent Applications Filed and Patents Granted 202 IVA Foreign Patents Granted to CSIR during 2012-13 203 V Members of CSIR Society 232 VI Welcome Address by DG, CSIR 234 VII Address by Hon'ble Minister of S&T and ES and VP, CSIR, Shri Vayalar Ravi 236 VIII Address by Hon'ble Prime Minister and President CSIR, Dr. Manmohan Singh 238 IX CAG Report 240 X List of Approved projects in Twelfth Five Year Plan 241 Executive Summary CSIR 1.0 Background 1.1 Established in 1942, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), known for its cutting edge R&D knowledge base in diverse S&T areas, is a contemporary R&D organization. Having pan-India presence, CSIR has a dynamic network of 38 national laboratories, 39 outreach centres, 3 Innovation Complexes and 5 units. CSIR's R&D expertise and experience is embodied in about 4000 active scientists supported by about 8000 scientific and technical personnel. 1.2 CSIR covers a wide spectrum of science and technology – from radio and space physics, oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology and nano technology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering and information technology. It provides significant technological intervention in many areas with regard to societal efforts which include environment, health, drinking water, food, housing, energy, farm and non-farm sectors. Further, CSIR's role in S&T human resource development is noteworthy. 1.3 Pioneer of India's intellectual property movement, CSIR today is strengthening its patent portfolio to carve out global niches for the country in select technology domains. CSIR is granted 90% of US patents granted to any Indian publicly funded R&D organization. On an average CSIR files about 250 Indian patents and 250 foreign patents per year. About 13% of CSIR patents are licensed - a number which is above the global average. Amongst its peers in publicly funded research organizations in the world, CSIR is a leader in terms of filing and securing patents worldwide. 1.4 CSIR has pursued cutting edge science and advanced knowledge frontiers. The scientific staff of CSIR only constitutes about 3-4% of India's scientific manpower but they contribute to 11% of India's scientific outputs. During the year 2012, CSIR published 5006 papers in SCI Journals with an average impact factor per paper 2.673. 1.5 For boosting entrepreneurship CSIR has operationalized desired mechanisms, which could lead to enhanced creation and commercialization of radical and disruptive innovations, underpinning the development of new economic sectors. 2.0 The Performance - A Summary The year saw the beginning of the 12th Five Year Plan. CSIR's 12th Five Year Plan aims for Prosperity of People while Protecting the Planet. It thus has people centric approach with focus on Scientific & Technological Developments & Interventions for Economic and Social Empowerment through organizational, leadership and national focus. Concerted R&D efforts are being pursued in the domains of: (i) Affordable Healthcare; (ii) Agri-food technologies; (iii) Sustainable Energy; (iv) Chemistry and Environment (v) Smart and Functional materials; (vi) Engineering Structures/ design and Electronics; (vii) Civil Aviation; (viii) Climate Change and Earth System Sciences; (ix) CSIR 800; and (x) Scientific Entrepreneurship. During the year, CSIR's performance was very imposing. The report has encapsulated significant accomplishments along with most notable activities taken up by the Council which are structured in chapters 1, 2 and 3. Following paragraphs highlight some most cogent achievements. 2.1 CSIR's Global Positioning Ranked at 81st among 2740 institutions worldwide, CSIR is the only Indian organization among the top 100 global institutions, according to the SCImago Institutions Ranking World Report 2013. CSIR holds the 16th rank in Asia and leads the country at the first position. CSIR's average output per scientist is not far behind in comparison to the other leading publicly funded organizations in the world. With a budget of about 4.34 Billion USD, CNRS, France average output per scientist is about 10.99, RIKEN, Japan with 1.07 Billion USD at 5.11 and CSIR with only 0.61 Billion USD is at an admirable 4.71. 1 CS IR Annual Report 2012-2013 2.2 Scientific Excellence l CSIR has published 5006 research papers during 2012 with an average impact factor per paper as 2.673 in SCI journals of national and international repute contributing to 10% of Indian R&D literature. l Several research papers were in high impact factor journals like 'Chemical Reviews' (IF 41.298), 'Lancet' (IF 38.278), 'Nature' (IF 38.597), 'Science' (IF 31.20), 'Chemical Society Reviews' (IF 28.76) etc. Following Graphs show the trend of research publications by CSIR over the last few years. Research Publications 6000 5006 4716 5000 4114 4259 4434 4000 3000 Number 2000 1000 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year Average Impact Factor per paper 2.8 2.7 2.67 2.56 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.28 2.28 2.3 2.2 2.14 A. IF per Paper 2.1 2 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year 2 CSIR Ÿ Some of the Research Articles from CSIR appeared on the cover page of the journals. 'Synthesis of tetrazole– 'Recent progress of core- 'Glu121-Lys319 salt bridge soxazoline hybrids as a new substituted between catalytic and N-terminal class of tubulin polymerization naphtha lenediimides' domains is pivotal for the activity inhibitors' CSIR-IICT CSIR-IICT and stability of scherichia coli amino peptidase N' CSIR-IICT 'Mixotrophic operation of photo- 'Porphyrin having high quantum 'Thermally assisted photonic bioelectrocatalytic fuel cell under yields of triplet and singlet oxygen. It inversion of supra molecular anoxygenic micro environment exhibits apoptosis mediated photo handedness' CSIR-NIIST enhances the light dependent bio dynamic activity in cancer cells and electrogenic activity' acts as a probe for NIR fluorescence CSIR-IICT imaging of live cell nucleus' CSIR-CCMB 'Oligo(p-phenylene- 'Aza-BODIPY Derivatives: 'High quality NMP exfoliated ethynylene)- Derived Super-p- Enhanced Quantum Yields of graphene nano sheet–SnO2 Gelators with Tunable Emission Triplet Excited States and the composite anode material for and Self-Assembled Generation of Singlet Oxygen lithium ion battery' Polymorphic Structures' and their Role as Facile CSIR-CECRI CSIR-NIIST Sustainable Photo oxygenation Catalysts' CSIR-NIIST 3 CS IR Annual Report 2012-2013 2.3 Value Generation through Intellectual Property CSIR has filed 381 patents abroad and 199 patents in India during 2012-13. It is maintaining a portfolio of 2767 patents abroad and 1746 patents in India as on 31.03.2013 with 13.86% utilization as on 20.09.2012. The following charts provide data on patents filed and patents granted over the last few years. Patents Filed 500 404 381 400 290 300 183 220 199 161179 174 197 200 Number 100 0 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Year India Abroad Patents Granted 800 703 600 361 333 319 282 400 260 272 145 200 99 108 Number 0 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Year India Abroad 2.4 Creating and Nurturing S&T Human Resource CSIR has been systematically creating and nurturing highly qualified S&T manpower in the country. It is presently supporting more than 9000 Research fellows, 169 Senior Research Associates and more than 1200 research schemes to various universities. 2.5 CSIR Scientists in Frontier of Science CSIR scientists are well recognized and are awarded prestigious fellowships and conferred awards regularly. A glimpse of these recognitions is given below: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2012 Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury Dr. Gangadhar J Sanjayan CSIR-IGIB CSIR-NCL 4 CSIR Infosys Foundation Award-2012 Dr. A. Ajayaghosh Dr. Ashish Lele CSIR-NIIST CSIR-NCL INSA Fellows 2013 Dr. P. S. Ahuja Prof. Gautam Biswas Dr. Madhu Dikshit CSIR-IHBT CSIR-CMERI CSIR-CDRI Dr. Yogendra Singh Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan Dr. A. K. Giri CSIR-IGIB CSIR-CCMB CSIR-IICB Dr. G. Parthasarthy Dr. A. Ajayaghosh Dr. S. K. Krishna CSIR-NGRI CSIR-NIIST CSIR-NIO 3.0 Some noteworthy accomplishments 3.1 CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute CSIR has repositioned its unit namely CSIR-Centre for Mathematical Modeling & Computer Simulation (CSIR-CMMACS) as CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI) in order to empower high end computational and data intensive scientific research.