Research and Development Cell

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. The term of this committee is 03 years. 
2. In addition to assigned roles and responsibilities of the committee, the role of convenor/co-convenor also includes conducting meetings, preparing agenda & minutes and communicating the recommendations.
3. This committee works to ensure that research promotion activities at the University are aligned with the mandates of various National Missions, SDGs, Startup India leading to a Self-Reliant India (Atma-Nirbhar Bharat).
4. This committee works and makes specific recommendations so that research guidance from RDC may aim to encourage faculties to conceive ideas through enhanced industry-academia interactions and prepare research proposals for funding from various agencies.
5. This committee also works to recommend and organise events like capacity building programs (Research Methodology and Research Techniques) and specific research theme-based workshops and Research Internships will motivate the end-users (students, scholars, and faculties) to participate actively in the process of ideation and innovative research in emerging areas.
6. This committee also works to identify and recommend thrust areas for research in the university. In addition, this committee will also work to underpinning the societal needs and the availability of key resources, including in-house human resources, faculty research competencies, and support systems.
7. As Research Incentives and Recognition Incentives play a significant role in triggering and catalyzing research interest among scholars and faculties, this committee works to formulate/modify and recommend the policies or guidelines for incentivizing quality publications and patents by students and faculty to create an enduring positive impact.
8. This committee also works to formulate/modify and recommend the policies for institutionalizing the Excellence Awards for accomplishments/achievements in the form of impactful quality research and/ or research-based teaching so that the research and innovation activities of the university may be stimulated and invigorated.
9. This committee also works to develop/modify and recommend the policy focusing on identifying specific intensives for research faculty and develop a unique Research Career ladder for strengthening the mission "Research".
10. This committee also works to make recommendations to the University for making provision for research in the annual budget subject to the availability of funds.
11. This committee also works to formulate/modify and recommend the guidelines for the utilization of the corpus created for research for supporting the seed funding for freshly recruited faculty for developing research facilities, publications and patenting.