LIST of PARTNER INSTITUTE

List of Partner Institutes:

Following research institutes / universities are involved in research as partner institute with NTRF:

Tea Research Institutes:

  Tocklai Tea Research Institute, (RTRI)

  UPASI - Tea Research Foundation (UPASITRF-TRI)

  Darjeeling Tea Research & Development Centre (DTR&DC)

  Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur

Universities:

  Calcutta University

  Jadavpur University

  Visva Bharati

  Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh

  North Bengal University

  Assam University, Silchar

  West Bengal University of Technology

  Presidency College, Kolkata

  University of Madras, Chennai

  Vidyasagar University, Medinipur

  West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

  West Bengal State University, Barasat

  Karunya University, Tamil Nadu

  Tezpur University, Assam

  Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Kolkata

Agricultural Universities:

  Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam

  Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishva Vidyalaya, Kalyani, West Bengal

  C.S.K. Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishva Vidyalaya, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh

Research Institutes:

  Allergy & Asthma Research Centre, Kolkata

  Bose Institute, Kolkata (DST)

  Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata

  Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow (CSIR)

  Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Kolkata

  North-East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (CSIR)

  Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, (ACTREC)

  Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (Min of Health, GOI)

  S.N.Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences (Cal.Univ)

  Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology, Palampur (CSIR)

  Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR)

  Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu

  Bharthi Women’s College, Chennai

  Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata

  KPC Medical College & Hospital

  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,

  Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

  S.T.Hindu College, Nagercoil, Chennai

  Mazumdar Shaw Centre for Translational Research, Bangalore

  National Research Institute of Ayurveda for Drug Development, (AYUSH), Kolkata

  ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore

  K. S. Rangasami College, Tamil Nadu

  NRS Medical College, Kolkata

  Moulana Azad College, Kolkata

  All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar

Modalities for the selection of Projects

  Projects can be submitted during any time of the year both in hard copy and soft copy (either mail or through online as available in   NTRF portal).

  Projects to be submitted strictly following the format of NTRF. All the columns to be filled up properly. NTRF will reject the proposal if it is not in the approved format.

  Not more than two opportunities for revision/correction will be permitted before submission of the project for second time.

  Concerned subject expert only should be the PIs.

  Yearly reports to be send timely and in the format provided.

  Budget should be prepared in the proper format as per NTRF directives.

  Corrections to be done as suggested by NTRF/RAC members

  All corrections incorporated and highlighted.

  Projects are sanctioned for a specific period only.

  Project will be evaluated through RAC twice in a year i.e. January and July of every year.

  New project may be received throughout the year, but the same project may be placed in the nearest available RAC meeting.

  Once the project submitted by the Principal Investigator, may be scrutinized by NTRF Secretariat within a month of time.

  The scrutinized project may be forwarded to the RAC members / subject matter specialists for their comments / opinion / suggestion along with the observations of NTRF Secretariat.

  The observations of NTRF Secretariat and comments / opinion / suggestion may be forwarded to the Principal Investigator of the concerned project within 2-3 months time for preparation of the presentation before the RAC.

  Capital items are rarely sanctioned, unless they are very essential. Analysis etc could be outsourced for which recurring expenditure shall be provided.

  Host institutes are provided with overhead at 10% of recurring expenditure.

 Since inception of NTRF in 1988 till 30^th April, 2016 NTRF received 221 project proposals from various research institutions / universities have been received. So far 171 proposals have been approved and 14 have been rejected. Rest 20 projects are under scrutiny. Around 150 papers were published in different scientific journal. Out of the 150 approved projects, two were not implemented, 135 have been completed and 36 are in various stages of progress.

 Project proposals which did not fit within the objectives of NTRF were rejected.