Project Proposal Preparation

Dr.Ashok Rao
Professor, IISc Bangalore

ELEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS
Proposal

Identification of funding Agencies

Follow up
Strength & Weakness Organization

Annual Reports

News Paper

Web site Format

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

Modernization Research and Development

Thrust Area Consultancy

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

Modernization
Upgradation of Infrastructure

Establishment of Additional Unit

Establishment of new Center / Laboratory

For Improvement of quality of on going programmes

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

Research and Developments

Promotion of general Research capabilities in the areas of National interest
Choice of particular area
Sponsored Research Development of Product

Patenting
Collaborative Research By call for Proposal in particular area

All India Council For Technical Education RESEARCH & INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AICTE provides financial assistance under the schemes of Modernization and Removal of Obsolescence (MODROBS), Thrust Area Programme in Technical Education (TAPTEC) and Research & Development (R&D) in the field of Engineering and Technology.

To ensure effective implementation of these programmes, the Council has set up a Committee, namely, the Board of Research (BOR), comprising of eminent Scientists, Engineers, Academicians, Industrialists and Technologists.

All India Council For Technical Education RESEARCH & INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Brief objective of these schemes are given below :

MODERNISATION & REMOVAL OF OBSOLESCENCE (MODROBS) THRUST AREA PROGRAMME IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION (TAPTEC)

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (R&D)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

Thrust Area
Representative list of Thrust Area of the funding agency to be referred Identification of Thrust Area for making Proposal

Promotion of excellence and need based Research in identified Thrust Area for National development

CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

Consultancy
Invitation - Advertisement - Direct request on specific area

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Basic Principles

Consistency Clarity
Credibility Confidence

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Basic Information

Common to all Project - Covers more than 40% of the proposals

Creation of Database about the Organization Information about parent organization - JSS MVP Strength of the Organization

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Table indicating
- Infrastructure - Staff strength - Achievements - Papers published - Awards - Training Programme - Consultancy - Grants received from other agencies by the organization

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Preamble
On the proposed subject of the project
History Definition Current Scenario Need of the Project

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Format
Normally the funding agency requires the proposal in the prescribed format
Existing facility
Achievements Grants received during last 5 years

Major projects under taken

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Resource generated during last 5 years Current research activities List of equipments costing above 5 lakhs Library facility Computers & Network facilities Details of plan of the organization for next 5 years

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Object & Goals of the project
Representation by Schematic Diagrams
Conduction of Conferences Short-Term Programmes Fellowships Research plans

Strong Research Team building

Resource sharing with other Institutes IITs & IISc.

Product Development

Image Processing & Vision Center

R&D

Publications

Applications
Useful to Society

Free Consultancy

Resource identification

Medical Biometrics Imaging

Speech & Hearing

Food Research

Defense

Blind rehabilitation

Fig.3 Schematic Proposed Project Objective of IP & CV Centre

Water marking

audio, video
Image Procesing eg: Compression, Restoration, Zooming etc.,

Rural Upliftment

Resource identification via Pattern Recognition

eg., Forest resource, mineral resource etc

Early Blind Identification Speech & Hearing Impairment detection Image Compression Studies for JPEG & MPEG using DCT & Wavelets Image Processing & Computer Vision Research

Pattern Recognition
eg: Data Analysis
Medical Imaging eg., early detection of cancer Scientific Forensic Analysis e.g., Finger Print Analysis, Face recognition etc.,

Image Restoration
eg: Internet, Multimedia, Picture Restoration, etc.,

Watermarking for image and documents

Fig - Technical Profile of the Proposed Project

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Justification of Proposal

Survey reports

Seminars & Workshop Recommendations

Studies / Published data

Gaps felt and anticipated demand of the Projects

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Approach, Methodology & Work Plan Implementation of the Project
- Planning

- Work Plan and time Schedule

- Phase wise, year wise - Advisory Group - Identification and Approval - Charts, Photographs & Clippings

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Budget

Recurring
- Staff Salaries - Equipment Maintenance - Stationary, Contingencies

Non Recurring
Land Building Equipment Furniture etc.,

Fig. Resource Utilization

A. Equipment 25.5L 5.35L 24.8L B. Infrastructure

C. Networking & Computational Facilities

D. Maintenance

2.26L
20L 2.5L 4.5L
1

L- Lakh Rupees

4.5L
2

4.25L
3

4.25L
4 5

Year

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Out come of the Project
Expected output on implementation Benefit to the public

Annexures

FUNDING AGENCIES
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) University Grants Commission (UGC) Department of Science and Technology (DST) Defense R & D Organization (DRDO)

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

OTHER INFORMATION

1. http://www.aicte.ernet.in 2. http://www.drdo.com 3. http://www.vigyan.org.in 4. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/india/epg/proposal0111.html 5. www.mit.gov.in 6. www.nic.in

7. www.isro.org

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