Projects

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)

  1. ASPIRE Livelihood Business Incubator- funded by MSME of Value of 1 Crore
  2. Startup India Seed Fund Scheme by DPIIT MOC&I of value of 5 Crore
  3. MCL CSR Support Programme for “Supporting Foundation For Technology & Business Incubator ( FTBI) and establishment of MCL IoT Lab, 2.61 Crores
  4. DST NIDHI Technology Business Incubator- 4.5 Crores
  5. DST NIDHI Entrepreneurship-in-Residence Programme- 39.6 Lakhs
  6. 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