MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES AND MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
(DR. HARSH VARDHAN)
(a) The year-wise details of the schemes launched by the Government under the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology since the year 2014 till date are as follow:-
In the Union Budget of FY 2014-15, Technology Research Centres Programme was announced by the Hon''ble Finance Minister. Accordingly, Five Technical Research Centres (TRCs) were established during FY 2015-16 in the following institutions of Department of Science and Technology:
1. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum
2. International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI),
Hyderabad
3. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
4. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
5. S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
In the year 2015, a National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was approved by the Government at a total cost of Rs 4500 crore over a 7-year period of implementation. The Mission is being jointly steered by the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) along with the Implementing Agencies viz. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune. The mission aims to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to the Supercomputer grid with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the back bone. The NSM intends to set up a grid of 70 high-performance supercomputing facilities, using both “buy” and “build” approach at academic and research institutions across the country.
In the year 2018, the Union Government has approved a National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) at a total outlay of Rs. 3660 crore for a period of five years. The Mission has four major activities, i.e., Technology Development, Human Resource & Skill Development, including development of Cyber-Physical System technology application tools for education at elementary and high school level, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Start-Up Ecosystem and International Collaborations.
In the year 2017-18, following schemes/programme were launched by the Government under the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
(i) Biotechnology Innovation Fund – AcE Fund (Accelerating Entrepreneurs) with a total cost of
Rs. 150 Crores for three years to induce investment in Biotechnology Sector. The program was
launched.
(ii) Industry-Academia Collaborative Mission for Accelerating Discovery Research to Early
Development for Biopharmaceuticals - Innovate in India (I3) for empowering biotech
entrepreneurs & accelerating inclusive innovation’ was approved by the Cabinet at a total cost
of Rs.1500 crore for five years.
(iii) A farmer centric Biotech-KISAN scheme was launched as Pan-India program, following a hub-and
spoke model and stimulates entrepreneurship and innovation in farmers and empowers women. The
Biotech- KISAN Hubs focus on the technology requirement to generate agriculture and bio-
resource related jobs and better livelihood ensuring biotechnological benefits to small and
marginal farmers. Biotech-KISAN also has an unique feature to identify and promote local farm
leadership in both genders. Such leadership helps to develop science-based farming besides
facilitating transfer of knowledge. So far, a total of eight Biotech-KISAN Hubs in different
Agro-climatic Zones have been supported.
(b) to (f): The Ministry of Science and Technology does not implement any centrally sponsored scheme, hence state-wise allocation is not made.
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