Find your RTDI programme/ Understanding Indian funding programmes

In India, there are various central governmental agencies that offer science and technology research funding to the researchers. Major funding agencies are:

A. Ministry of Science & Technology
Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India
• Bilateral Programmes
• Bilateral collaboration with European Union
• New Indigo Programme
• Ramanujan Fellowship

Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India
• New Indigo Programme
• Bilateral Programme
• Visiting Scientist from Abroad Programme (VSAP)
• Welcome Trust-DBT Alliance

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
• Bilateral Programme
• New Indigo Programme
• Fellowship programme

B.  Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCOIT)
Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India
• Bilateral Programme

C. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
• Bilateral Programme

D. Ministry of Human Resource Development
University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)

E. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation 
Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE)
• Bilateral Programme

F. Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF)
• Bilateral Programme

G. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
• Bilateral Programmes / Multilateral Programmes

H. Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MFPI)
• Bilateral Programme

These funding agencies support research through a wide variety of programmes specifically carved out to meet the requirements of different sections of the scientific and research need.  In our link section, you will find the links of these websites. The database of RTDI programmes are here. If you would like to promote RTDI programmes, please do contact us.