Audit Reports

Scientific Department

Overview

Government formulated the Tenth Five Year Plan with high expectations from Science and Technology sector in contributing to growth rate of the economy. As Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) had developed knowledge networks across its constituent laboratories, the Planning Commission suggested that Research and Development (R&D) efforts of CSIR should be consolidated and inter-institutional R&D projects should be taken up. Consequently, in Tenth Five Year Plan, CSIR adopted a new approach in selection and implementation of in-house R&D projects in its constituent laboratories by introducing network projects.

Network project was defined as a project, where more than one CSIR laboratory collectively source inputs and implement the identified objectives together. Emphasis was laid on networking of resources and capabilities of CSIR. According to the guidelines for network projects, the projects aimed at 'generation of knowledge, usable knowledge and useful knowledge as products. Therefore, those projects which target usable and useful knowledge as products are exacted to afford commercialisable results'.

During Tenth Five Year Plan, CSIR took up 54 network projects/programmes at estimated cost of 'I860 crore. The emphasis of Planning Commission on consolidation of R&D efforts of CSIR laboratories and new methodology adopted by CSIR for implementing R&D projects in networking mode, together with significant financial outlay involved, prompted us to undertake performance audit of network projects.

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• Index
• Preface
• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Planning, Execution and Monitoring of Network Projects
• Chapter 3 - Outcome of Network Projects
• Chapter 4 - Audit Findings from Specific Projects
• Chapter 5 - Conclusion
• Appendices
• Glossary of Names of Laboratories of CSIR