Based on the national, regional interests/ mandate of the R&D Institutes and the local requirements, the research work of basic, strategic or applied nature is being taken up. The scientific fraternity deployed at various institutes across the country is making every effort to address the problems faced by the local farmers, stakeholders; interact with them and address the issues by way of taking up research projects according to their area of expertise/specialization. The issues raised in various forums viz. Project Monitoring, Co-ordination and Evaluation (PMCE), State Level Sericultural Coordination Committee (SLSCC) of DoS, seminars and symposia are given due care.
Though most of the projects are funded by the Central Silk Board, externally funded projects, inter/ intra institutional, collaborative and international research projects are being encouraged besides projects involving industrial partners.
Central Silk Board is having a well-organized set up of research mechanism in place to address various local problems. Multidisciplinary laboratories have been established in all the R&D institutes to carry out research and developmental works in the field of mulberry and vanya (non-mulberry) sectors. Commendable works have been done so far by the institutes to address the local issues and to make sericulture more viable and remunerative. CSB is striving hard to bring out disease resistant and high productive host plant varieties and season & region-specific robust silkworm breeds to boost the quality raw silk production and productivity.
Developing cost-effective technologies/ packages suiting to the field requirements are also undertaken with the new ideas/ thoughts drawn from various sectors/ platforms and as per the need and requirement, the institutes propose research ideas in the form of Concept Note, which is thoroughly reviewed at Institute level by the in-house Committee, Research Council (RC), after thorough vetting by PMCE (Project Monitoring, Co-ordination and Evaluation) Section, it is submitted to CO CSB seeking approval.
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The Concept Note, on its receipt at RCS will be allotted a code and after thorough scrutiny, either approved or rejected or revision may be sought based on the priority, need and merit of the proposal. After approval from the CO, the Concept Notes are formulated into full-fledged project proposals by the concerned PIs and sent for review by at least 5 subject experts (referees). Subsequently, they are placed before the RC and RAC along with the referees comments and action taken on it, for its recommendations. The RAC recommend project proposals are then submitted to CO for approval. The full-fledged project proposals, based on the research priorities/ thrusts and the information base, the Research Coordination Section (RCS) at CO suggest/ recommend the proposals to the Competent Authority (Member Secretary) after thorough review for consideration/ approval or otherwise. Thus the approved research projects are allocated with a code for further use.
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