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How Indian research is paid for and organised: research spending, the national research foundation and funds for innovation, science institutions and their reform, awards, and the careers of scientists. It serves GS3 answers on science policy.
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Anusandhan National Research Foundation
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The Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) pays for research in universities and colleges, and its mandate is to widen the base beyond the institutions that already win grants. A review by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) found that public money has not spread that way, and that nobody can see the whole of it in one place.
- Close to 80 per cent of ANRF money goes to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
- Public research money is spread across agencies that cannot see what the others fund.
- NITI Aayog proposes a Unified Project Management System to plan, fund and monitor public research in one place.
- Without a persistent identifier and standard metadata on every grant, money still cannot be traced to results.