Project On-Going

Project Title: 

Design of Crop Residue Based False Ceiling for Thermal Comfort: An Efficient Dairy Management for Doubling Farmer Income

Funding Agency:  

Suzuki Next Bharat Fellowship 2025

Project Team:

Principal Investigator:  Prof. Srikanta Routroy

Co- Principal Investigators: Prof. Arun Kumar Jalan and Prof. Anupam Singhal

Budget: 

15 Lakhs (Initially)

Duration: 

1 year (Initially)

Project Title

Design of Crop Residue Based False Ceiling for Thermal Comfort: An Efficient Dairy Management for Doubling Farmer Income

Funding Agency:  

NABARD

Budget: 

INR 26.18 Lakhs

Duration: 

2 Years (2025-2027)

Project Team:

Sushil Kumar Yadav (PI) and Srikanta Routroy (Co-PI)

Project Title: 

Eco-Friendly Solution with Metal Recovery and Value-Added Products from Stainless Steel Spent Pickle Liquor: A Zero Waste Business Model

Funding Agency:

Ministry of Steel, New Delhi

Industrial Partner:

Jindal Stainless Limited

Institutions involved:

CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur and BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Total Sanctioned Amount:

125.164 Lakhs

Sanctioned Amount to BITS Pilani:

34.614 Lakhs

Investigators (BITS Pilani)

Prof. Anupam Singhal (PI) and Prof. Srikanta Routroy (Co-PI)

Duration:

2023 onwards

Project Title: 

Design and development of crop residue-based roof insulation with Phase Change Materials for livestock rearing shelters: An environment-friendly business model for doubling farmer women’s income in Arid and Semi-Arid zones

Funding Agency: 

DST, New Delhi.

Duration: 

3 Years (February, 2023-January, 2026)

Total Sanctioned Amount

42 Lakhs (Approximately)

Research Team:

P Srinivasan (PI); & Prof. Srikanta Routroy (Co-PI)

Project Title: 

Encapsulated PCM-based Magnetic Nanoparticles and AI Applications for Optimising Separation of Carcinogenic Industrial Solvents Using Solar Energy: Shaping Towards Sustainable Development

Funding Agency:  

Scheme for Promotion of Academic & Research Collaboration (SPARC) Scheme, Ministry of Education, India

Research Team:

PI: Suvanjan Bhattacharyya & Co-PI:  Ranjan Dey, Srikanta Routroy and Saket Verma

Duration:

02 years (01/04/ 2024 to 31/03/2026)

Proposed Budget:

73,20,000 (INR)

Management Development Programme (MDP) for Indian Army (On-going)

MDP Title

MDP Details

IT, inventory management & accounting

Funding Agency: Army Management Studies Board (AMSB)

Sanction Amount: INR 2,72,58,000

Duration: 03 MDPs each year with two weeks’ duration for 3 Years (2025-26, 2026-27 & 2027- 28)

Team: Satyendra Kumar Sharma, Srikanta Routroy and Saurabh Chadha

BITS Supported Projects (On-going)

Project Title: 

Design of Green Logistics System for Milk Supply Chain: A Business and environmental Sustainable Approach

Funding Agency: 

BITS Pilani

Scheme:

2^nd Cross Disciplinary Research Framework (CDRF)

Project Investigators:  

Srikanta Routroy & Subhasis Pradha

Sanctioned Amount: 

Approximately 40   Lakhs [It includes financial support of 20 Lakhs plus one Institute supported Research Scholar for four years]

Duration: 

02 Years (2025-27)

Project Title:

Lean Supply Chain Designs to Reduce Food Waste for Business and Environmental Sustainability: An Indo-Australian Study

Funding Agency: BITS Pilani and RMIT University, Australia.

Scheme: BITS-RMIT PhD Program

Research Team:

BITS Pilani: Prof. Srikanta Routroy (PI) and Dr. Prasanta Kumar Sahu (Co-PI)

RMIT University: Professor Prem Chhetri (PI) and Prof. Mathews Nkhoma (Co-PI)

Duration: 04 Years (2023-2027)

Project Title:

Decarbonized Supply chain for Additively Manufactured Natural Fibre Based Automotive Components: A Sustainable Business Model

Funding Agency: BITS Pilani and RMIT University, Australia.

Scheme: BITS-RMIT PhD Program

Research Team:

BITS Pilani: Srikanta Routroy (PI) and Radha Raman Mishra (Co-PI)

RMIT University: Muhammad Abdulrahman (PI) and Kamrul Ahsan (Co-PI)

Duration: 04 Years (2025-2029)

Project Title:

Integrating supply chains in smart cities for enhanced community service: A business and environmental sustainability approach

Funding Agency: BITS Pilani and La Trobe University, Australia.

Scheme: Asian Smart Cities Research and Innovation Network (ASCRIN)

Research Team:

BITS Pilani: Srikanta Routroy (PI) & Prasanta K Sahu (Co-PI)

LA TROBE University: Sean Arisian (PI), & Aniruddha Desai (Co-PI)

Duration: 04 Years (2024-2028)

Project Title:

Enhancing Logistics Operations Through Soft Skills: A Strategic Path to Smart Workforce Development.

Funding Agency: BITS Pilani and RMIT University, Australia.

Scheme: BITS-RMIT PhD Program

Research Team:

BITS Pilani: Prof. Gajendra Singh Chauhan (PI) and Prof. Srikanta Routroy (Co-PI)

RMIT University: Professor Aswini Yadlapalli (PI) and Prof. Vinh Thai (Co-PI)

Duration: 04 Years (2026-2029)

GOI Sponsored Research Project (Completed as PI and  Co-PI)

Project Title

Completed Project Details as Principal Investigator

Doubling Farm Women’s income: Entrepreneurship development through post-harvest processing and technology integration in arid zone

Funding Agency: DST- SEED (ASACODER), GoI

Institutions involved: CAZRI Jodhpur and BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Duration: 4 Years (2021- 2025)

Total Sanctioned Amount: 235.86541 Lakhs

Sanctioned Amount to BITS Pilani: 70.20841 Lakhs

Waste Management of Generated Sludge from Indian Steel and Steel Related Plants: A Sustainable Business Model

Funding Agency: Ministry of Steel, New Delhi

Duration: September 2018- March 2022

Sanctioned Amount: 38.046 Lakhs

Design of Healthcare Supply Chain for Enhancing Availability and Reducing Wastage of Generic Medicines for Rural Areas in Rajasthan

Funding Agency: DST Rajasthan

Duration: Sept 2016-January 2021

Sanctioned Amount: INR. 5.886 Lakhs

Role in Project: Principal Investigator

Design of Supplier Development Implementation Framework for Indian Manufacturing Industries

Funding Agency: UGC, New Delhi

Duration: 3 Years (2013-2016)

Sanctioned Amount: INR. 9.408 Lakhs

Role in Project: Principal Investigator

Project Title

Completed Project Details as Co-Principal Investigator

Innovative technologies for improving resource utilization in the Indo- European fish value chains

Funding Agency: DBT, India

Institutions involved:

Amity University; BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus; SINTEF, Norway & Grupo CARINSA, Spain

Duration: 4 Years (2018- 2022)

Amount Sanctioned to SINTEF, Norway: 800,000 Euro

Amount Sanctioned to BITS Pilani: 62.092 Lakhs

Role in Project: Co-Principal Investigator

Development of e-waste management strategies for selected e-products in Rajasthan

Funding Agency: DST Rajasthan

Duration: 2018- 2022

Sanctioned Amount: INR 7.536 Lakhs

Role in Project: Co-Principal Investigator

Concurrent Evaluation of the implementation of NFSA (State: Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh)

Funding Agency: Department of Food & public Distribution, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi

Duration: One Year: Third and Fourth Quarter, 2018; First and Second Quarter, 2019

Role in Project: Co-Principal Investigator

Sanctioned Amount: INR 7.2 Lakh

Opportunities and Challenges in Enhancing Farm Income through Farmer Producer Organizations

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, MHRD, New Delhi).

Duration: 2 Years (March 2022- 2024)

Sanctioned Amount: 7.5 Lakhs

Role in Project: Co-Project Director

Consultancy Project as Co-PI (Completed)

Project Title

Completed Project Details as Co-Principal Investigator

Study of the warehouse operations and services parameters to frame guidelines and requirements for Non-Agri warehousing service providers

Funding Agency: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Investigators: 

PI: Prof. Satyendra Kumar Sharma (PI), 

Co-PI: Srikanta Routroy & Krishna Manyur

Sanctioned Amount: INR 6.6 Lakh

Duration: Six Months