सीएसआईआर प्रयोगशालाओं के लिए न्यू आइडिया फंड (एनआईएफ) योजना

Research Support Programme under NEW IDEA FUND SCHEME

(for CSIR Labs/Instt. only)

MOTIVATION

In Science it is said that only two people are remembered; those who said the first word and those who say the last word. How many times we, in Indian science, have achieved this feat? Indeed how many times have we, in CSIR, dreamt of achieving this feat? Can we have a step jump in our ambitions in science in CSIR; so that we could be the ones who would open up new frontiers and lead and not follow? The New Idea Fund has been created for members of the CSIR science community who venture to dare, take risks to explore ideas with explosive creativity and novelty. This fund will support pre-competitive research in CSIR on a competitive basis.

SUPPORT

By very definition the proposals will be exploratory and support will be provided for proving the feasibility of a possibly far reaching concept in the first place. After the initial funding, If the concept is proved, then the funding would be provided through the normal CSIR funding channels. If the results are such that major technological breakthroughs are likely to be achieved, then even external funding will be sought. However in the first instance, the New Idea Fund will restrict itself to supporting exploratory part of the research.

PROPOSALS

The proposals in the prescribed format (see overleaf) should be submitted to DG,CSIR twice in a year i.e. on or before 15 September or 15 March.

SELECTION

A high powered expert committee of external, eminent scientists will review the proposals. The investigators will be expected to make the presentations to this expert committee. Announcement for support will be made on 1st December and 1st June of the year.

REVIEW

The approved proposals for support under NIF schemes are reviewed every year by the Committee which recommends the continuation of support.

Year	Lab	Project title	Name of Scientist	Cost (Lakhs)
1995	CLRI	Spin computers.	Dr. N. Chandrakumar Scientist F	15.00
1995	NAL	Alternate design of high performance CPU card without secondary cache.	Dr. U.N. Sinha Scientist	5.00
1996	NCL	Non-hazardous direct oxidation of hydrogen to hydrogen peroxide.	Dr.V.R.Choudhry Scientist	9.21
1997	IMT	Obtaining Mirror image Structures of Proteins through Reversal of Polypeptide Backbone Direction.	Dr.Purnananda Guptasarma Scientist	49.50
1997	IMT	Functional Analysis of Genes that Confer Difficult to Screen Phenotypes to Yeast.	Dr.K.Ganesan Scientist	15.24
1997	CIMAP	Plant Antibacterials Active against Drug Resistant Pathogens.	Prof. Sushil Kumar Director	37.35
1998	IMT	Targetting M.tuberculosis entrapped in MHC-mismatched Macrophages to Dendritic Cells: approach for the Induction of Tuberculosis specific Protective Immunity.	Dr.J.N.Agrewala Scientist	40.60
2001	CCMB	Transcriptional Regulation of Caspase Gene Expression by Tumor Suppressor P53.	Dr. Ghanshyam Swarup Scientist	17.02
2001	NCL	Activation of Methane and Carbon Dioxide: Novel Route for the Synthesis of Acetic Acid.	Dr. A.A. Kelkar Scientist and R.V. Chaudhary	18.90
2001	CEERI	MeV Ion Induced Reordering in Crystalline Silicon: Viability for Device Applications.	Dr. J. Akhtar Scientist And Dr. P. Sen, JNU.	22.50
2002	ICCT	The holy grail of organic chemistry: directing influence in aromatic substitution - a proposal to demolish this by site selective catalysis.	Dr. B.M. Choudhary Scientist	20.00
2003	IMT	Identification of the function of unknown ORFs/ genes through genome-wide perturbation analysis carried out in a heterologous host.	Dr. Anand K. Bachhawat, Scientist	18.20
2004	IMT	Is chromatin replicated like DNA-Meselson& Stahl?	Dr. Jagmohan Singh, Scientist	41.90
2004	CIMAP	A polyploid model for fixation of hetrozygosity.	Dr. U.C. Lavania, Scientist	20.96
2004	NAL	Development of a novel optical flow diagnostic technique for simultaneous measurement of velocity and density in fluid flows with density gradients.	Dr. L. Venkatakrishnan, Scientist	20.00
2004	CDRI	Sending a “Wake up” call to dormant cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Identification of signal proteins and receptors.	Dr. Ranjana Srivastava, Scientist	31.00