RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CELL

OBJECTIVES

Research Promotion and Guidance

Provide research support and guidance with the aim to encourage faculty to conceive ideas from through enhanced industry- academia interaction and prepare research proposals for funding from various agencies.

To help in formation of research clusters and/ or regional research consortia to bring together researchers, faculty, students, scholars and post-doctoral fellows for joint/collaborative high value (inter disciplinary and trans disciplinary) research projects to avail national and international funding opportunities. Develop a policy for identifying specific incentives for research.

To handle different aspects of the Ph.D. program in the University, disburse fellowships to Ph.D. research scholars under various schemes of the University and outside the University, etc.

Facilitate faculty research and academic growth by coordinating the Faculty Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), processing membership fee of society/academic bodies, processing of article publication charges, faculty achievement award, etc.

Research Monitoring:

To monitor and oversee research progress, coordinate programs, manage, facilitate and optimize resources, timely review of research activities for completion of the projects as per schedule, etc.

Capacity Building:

To organize events like capacity-building programms (Research Methodology and Research Techniques), and specific research theme-based workshops and research internships.

Integrity and Ethics:

To take initiatives to sensitize the research community to understand the importance of integrity and ethics, and comply with ethical codes of research and publishing practices at institutional, national and global levels.

Resource Sharing and Mobilization:

Strengthen resource sharing in content and infrastructure both within the University and among Universities, funding agencies, industries, corporates and Government, Facilitate resource mobilization and create a corpus for research and development from government, industry and other funding agencies and channelise corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds for sustenance and furtherance of research activities.

Collaborations: Act as a facilitator for networking and collaborative research with other national and international institutions working in inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary & multi- disciplinary research areas.

Research Information Management System: To put in place a research information management system in the University to collect and manage research-oriented information, databases, publications, research projects. fellowships, collaborations patents, thrust areas, innovations etc aligned with the University's research policies.