Funding Agency
Sponsored Project Details:
Ongoing Research Projects at IIT Indore:
1. Title: Sustainable Synthesis of Drug Targets, Machine Learning, Chemoenzymatic Resolution and Advancing Tech-transfer Chemical Education in India and Norway under INCP2. Total amount – Rs. 1.14 Crores
Funding Agency: UGC and Indo-Norway Higher Education, 2024-2027 (Principal Investigator)
2. Title: Livelihood interventions for Scheduled Caste labourers through “Shramik Vikas” community-partnered training programs in Simrol Block, Indore District, Madhya Pradesh State. Total amount – Rs. 1.0 Crore, 2024-2027
Funding Agency: DST, Department of Science and Technology ( Co-Principal Investigator)
3. Title: Photo and Electro Catalytic Approaches Towards Carbon Heteroatom Bond generations
Funding Agency – MOE STARS, 2023-2026 Total Amount – 30 Lakhs (Principal Investigator)
4. Title: Chemical Innovations For Sustainable Future 2020-2024 ( Principal Investigator), Total Amount 1.92 Crores
Funding Agency: UGC-DAAD, Under Indo-German Higher Education Partnerships (Principal Investigator)
5. Title: Technology Dissemination of Compressed Colored Composite for a wide range of products to support sustainable rural infrastructure, Total Amount – INR 59,40,000, 2023-2025
Funding agency – DST, GOI (Co-Principal Investigator)
6.Title: Developing Sustainable Enantioselective Carbonheteroatom Bond Formations Employing Dearomatisation reactions (EDRs), Total Amount -30 Lakhs, 2021-2024
Funding Agency: CSIR (Principal Investigator)
Completed Research Projects
1. Title: Developing Enantioselective Carbon-heteroatom Bond Formations Employing Visible Light, Total Amount – 44 Lakhs, 2021-2024
Funding Agency: SERB, Department of Science and Technology (Principal Investigator)
2. Title: Developing of Efficient Tribromides as Versatile Fine Oxidative Dearomatisation Reagents, Total Amount – 30 Lakhs, 2021-2023
Funding Agency: SERB, Department of Science and Technology, SERB TETRA AWARD (Principal Investigator)
3. Title: WASTE-TO-WEALTH” – SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE ORGANIC FARMING TECHNIQUE, Total Amount – 45 Lakhs, 2021-2025
Funding Agency: CSR, Rourkela Steel Plant (Principal Investigator) ( Transferred to another PI at NIT Rourkela)
4. Title: Exploring Molecular Intricacy – Developing Facile Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidative Dearomatisation Reactions (CAODRs) 2017- 2020, Total Amount- 42 Lakhs
Funding Agency : SERB, Department of Science and Technology (Principal Investigator)
5. Title: Injectable Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite- Polyanhydride Based Paste for Bone Substitution, Total Amount – 48 Lakhs
Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology. Status: 2017-2020 (Co-Principal Investigator)
6. Title : Intramural Project on Preparation of Low Cost Oxygen Concerntrator with Start up Yarev Technologies, FTBI NIT Rkl, Total Amount – 2 Lakhs
Funding Agency: NIT Rourkela (Principal Investigator). Status: 2021-22
7. Title : Intramural Project on Organic Farming, Total Amount – 5 Lakhs
Funding Agency: National Institute of Technology Rourkela ( Principal Investigator)
Status: 2018-2019
8. Title : Ruthenium catalysed Non-Metathesis Couplings, Total Amount – 35 Lakhs
Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology – Indian National Science Academy- INSPIRE FACULTY AWARD (Principal Investigator). Status: 2014-2019
9. Title: Synthesis of Medicinally Important Natural Products employing Cyclopropyl Ring- Cleavage and Oxidative de-aromatization reactions, Total Amount – 25 Lakhs
Funding Agency : SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India ( Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists). Status: 2013 – 2016
10. Title : Design of Multipurpose Photo reactor and Photoreactions, Total Amount – 5 Lakhs
Funding Agency: Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-II, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. Status: 2014-15
11. Title : Ruthenium Catalysed Atom-economic Transformations, Total Amount – 17 Lakhs
Funding Agency: Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Govt. of India (Young Scientist Research Award Scheme). Status: 2014-2017
Secured a Funding of Rs 2 Lakhs from SERB to conduct “Rural Innovators Conclave” at IIT Indore
Entrepreneurship Projects Brought and Headed the Incubation Centre at NIT Rourkela: (Completed)
- ASPIRE Livelihood Business Incubator- funded by MSME of Value of 1 Crore
- Startup India Seed Fund Scheme by DPIIT MOC&I of value of 5 Crore
- MCL CSR Support Programme for “Supporting Foundation For Technology & Business Incubator ( FTBI) and establishment of MCL IoT Lab, 2.61 Crores
- DST NIDHI Technology Business Incubator- 4.5 Crores
- DST NIDHI Entrepreneurship-in-Residence Programme- 39.6 Lakhs
- MeitY Startup Hub TIDE 2.0 programme- 1.72 Crores
Miscellaneous
LIST OF LABORATORIES DEVELOPED
At IIT Indore
— Organic Synthesis and Molecular Engineering Laboratory, POD 1E-203B, IIT Indore
At NIT Rourkela
— Organic Synthesis and Molecular engineering laboratory, Lab No. 405, BM-BT, NIT Rourkela
— Chemical Innovation Laboratory, Under the INDO-German Higher Education Partnership (IGP), lab No. 420, BM-BT, NIT Rourkela