SRINIVASA

R&D Committee

The following are the members of the committee

Frequency of Meeting:

The committee shall meet atleast four times a year or as and when required. The member secretary in consultation with the chairman prepares and circulates the agenda of the meeting well in advance. The member secretary maintains the minutes of the meeting and action taken report.

The roles and responsibilities are to

1. Formulate the action plan for R&D activities for the respective academic year.
2. Prepare and obtain the budget approval for R&D activities from finance & planning committee and forwarding the same to Governing Body.
3. Disseminate comprehensive list of funding agencies that allocate funds for R & D projects.
4. Encourage and guide staff and students to publish papers/articles/manuscripts/book chapters in conferences/journals of national/ international repute and to file/publish/grant patents and copyrights.
5. Assist the staff members and students to prepare and submit R&D project proposals for funding by AICTE, UGC, ISRO, DRDO, CSIR, DST, etc.,.
6. Formulate strategies for mutual benefit of stakeholders by fostering research collaborations in interdisciplinary areas through professional chapters.
7. Monitor R&D progress through meetings and identify bottlenecks and take remedial action.
8. Interact with Heads of Departments to organize national/international conferences/ workshops/ seminars/ training programs in thrust areas to enhance the professional and research skills among the staff and students.
9. Encourage faculty members to publish their research work indexed in SCI/WoS/Scopus/UGC-care journals.
10. Maintain & update data regarding research, consultancy and extension activities of staff/ students.
11. Upload progress of R&D activities on the web portals of affiliating/accrediting/ranking agencies.
12. Review the originality & quality of the publications/projects/ consultancies/patents and to recommend for incentives/ appreciation and suggestions for improvement.
13. Consolidate the progress of R&D activities of all departments and submit the report to the Principal.
14. Perform any other R&D activities as assigned by the Principal time to time.
15. To conduct a drive-in program to create SCOPUS ID, Vidwaan ID, Researcher ID, ORCID and GOOGLE scholar ID for the faculty members.
16. Encourage the staff members to be on board of editorial committees/reviewers for journals/ conferences.
17. Create awareness about plagiarism issues in publications.
18. Create awareness about citations and indexing importance in research among faculty and students.