Project On-Going

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

Funding Agency:  Ministry of Steel, New Delhi

Duration:   3 Years (September 2018- March 2022)

Amount:   38.046 Lakhs

Role in Project:  Principal Investigator (PI)

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

Funding Agency: DST-SEED (ASACODER), Ministry of Science and Technology, GoI

Indian Institutions involved: CAZRI Jodhpur and BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Duration: 3 Years (June 2021-May 2024)

Total Sanctioned Amount:  235.86541 Lakhs

Total Sanctioned Amount to BITS Pilani: 70.20841 Lakhs

Role in Project:  Principal Investigator (PI)

Title: 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-Feburary 2024)

Total Sanctioned Amount to BITS Pilani: 7.5 Lakhs

Role in Project:  Co-Project Director

Project Completed

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

Funding Agency:  DBT, New Delhi

Duration:   3 Years (2018- August 2021)

Total Sanctioned funding:  800,000 Euro 

Amount Sanctioned to BITS Pilani:   62.092 Lakhs

Indian Institutions involved:  Amity University; BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (Prof. Souvik Bhattacharyya (PI); Prof. MS Dasgupta (Co-PI) and Prof. Srikanta Routroy (Co-PI))

Institutions involved from other countries: SINTEF, Norway and Grupo CARINSA, Spain

Role in Project:  Co-Principal Investigator (PI)

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

Funding Agency:   DST Rajasthan

Duration:   3 Years (2018- 2021)

Amount:  INR 7.536 Lakhs

Role in Project:  Co-Principal Investigator (PI)

Title: 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 (PI)

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

Funding Agency:       DST Rajasthan

Duration:      3 Years (2016-2019)

Sanctioned Amount: INR. 5.886    Lakhs

Role in Project:  Principal Investigator (PI)

Title:  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  

Faculty Involved: Arun Vaish, Srikanta Routroy, Krishna M

Sanctioned Amount: INR 7.2 Lakh