DSIR

पहले सही योजना चुनें

DSIR कई योजनाएँ चलाता है और उनमें से अधिकतर स्टार्टअपों के लिए नहीं हैं। आवेदन पर समय लगाने से पहले खुद को किसी एक से मिलाएँ:

• विचार या प्रोटोटाइप वाला व्यक्ति: PRISM देखें। इसका पहला चरण छात्रों समेत किसी भी भारतीय नागरिक के लिए खुला है।
• प्रयोगशाला चरण से पायलट तक ले जाने वाली तकनीक वाली कंपनी: PACE के दिशानिर्देश पढ़ें।
• अपनी R&D इकाई वाली कंपनी: मान्यता और कर-अनुमोदन योजनाएँ मायने रख सकती हैं, लेकिन वे प्रमाणन हैं, अनुदान नहीं।
• महिलाओं के लिए तकनीक पर काम करने वाला NGO, ट्रस्ट या संस्थान: TDUPW आपके जैसे संगठनों के लिए है।
• साझा शोध सुविधाओं की ज़रूरत वाला छोटा निर्माता: अपने क्लस्टर के पास एक Common Research and Technology Development Hub खोजें।

PRISM आवेदन कैसे काम करते हैं

• जिस चरण में आवेदन कर रहे हैं, उसके लिए PRISM दिशानिर्देश और आवेदन प्रारूप पढ़ें।
• सभी annexures के साथ एक हस्ताक्षरित PDF तैयार करें, जो 20 MB से कम हो और जिसका शीर्षक "Proposal for Development of … Under PRISM scheme" हो।
• उसे किसी TOCIC outreach केंद्र को भेजें, और एक प्रति prism-dsir@gov.in पर भेजें। विषय पंक्ति में शीर्षक, चरण और श्रेणी लिखें।
• TOCIC दो या अधिक विषय-विशेषज्ञों की टिप्पणियों के साथ आपका प्रस्ताव DSIR को भेजता है। फिर DSIR की Project Advisory Screening Committee उसकी स्क्रीनिंग करती है।
• पेज कोई तिथि वाला call सूचीबद्ध नहीं करता। शुरू करने से पहले किसी TOCIC या DSIR से पूछें कि क्या प्रस्ताव लिए जा रहे हैं।

PRISM का चरण चुनना

• Phase-I, Category-I: proof of concept, प्रोटोटाइप और मॉडल। किसी भी भारतीय नागरिक के लिए खुला, छात्रों समेत।
• Phase-I, Category-II: कार्यशील मॉडल, प्रक्रिया ज्ञान, परीक्षण और ट्रायल, पेटेंटिंग या तकनीक हस्तांतरण।
• Phase-II: किसी तकनीक को बाज़ार योग्य उत्पाद में बढ़ाना और उद्यम बनाना। उनके लिए जिन्होंने PRISM पूरा किया है, या जिन्होंने अन्य सरकारी सहायता के साथ proof of concept दिखाया है।
• MSME क्लस्टरों के लिए R&D प्रस्ताव: संस्थानों के लिए, व्यक्तियों के लिए नहीं।

क्या तैयार करें

• PRISM के फ़ोकस क्षेत्रों में से किसी एक में तकनीकी समस्या का स्पष्ट विवरण: हरित तकनीक, स्वच्छ ऊर्जा, smart materials, waste to wealth, किफ़ायती स्वास्थ्य सेवा, या जल और सीवेज प्रबंधन। अन्य तकनीक-प्रधान क्षेत्रों पर भी विचार होता है।
• यथार्थवादी बजट के साथ एक परियोजना योजना। PRISM लागत नवप्रवर्तक के साथ साझा करता है, इसलिए दिखाएँ कि शेष कहाँ से आएगा।
• यदि आप बाद के चरणों के लिए आवेदन कर रहे हैं, तो पेटेंट और तकनीक हस्तांतरण की अपनी योजना।

The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, based at Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi. It was set up by a Presidential Notification dated 4 January 1985. DSIR is not an incubator or an accelerator. It is a government department that runs funding schemes, recognitions and tax approvals for industrial research, and a few of those schemes can support individual innovators, start-ups and small companies.

What DSIR does

DSIR's own pages describe a mandate to promote, develop, use and transfer indigenous technology, with a particular focus on helping small and medium enterprises adopt competitive technologies. Its work sits in two groups. The Industrial R&D Promotion Programme covers recognitions and fiscal incentives for research done by industry. The Industrial R&D Programme covers the schemes that fund projects: Access to Knowledge for Technology Development and Dissemination (A2K+), the Technology Development and Utilization Programme for Women (TDUPW), Common Research and Technology Development Hubs (CRTDHs), Patent Acquisition and Collaborative Research and Technology Development (PACE), and Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs (PRISM). Its about page also names CSIR, NRDC, Central Electronics Limited and the UN regional centre APCTT among the key organisations connected to it.

Schemes a founder can use

PRISM is the scheme closest to an early-stage founder. It supports individual innovators, including students, who want to turn an idea into a working prototype, and it carries on into patenting, technology transfer and enterprise creation in a second phase. It was launched in 2013 and was earlier known as the Technopreneur Promotion Programme, or TePP. Any Indian citizen with an innovative idea can apply in the first phase, and no company has to exist yet. Applications go through TePP Outreach cum Cluster Innovation Centres, called TOCICs, hosted by institutions such as IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur, several CSIR laboratories, the University of Madras and others. PRISM is a project grant scheme, and the innovator is expected to raise the balance of the project cost.

PACE is aimed at companies. It supports development and demonstration of new product and process technologies, taking them from proof of concept or laboratory stage to pilot stage. A company working alone is supported mainly through a secured loan, while a company working with a research institute or university can also have the institute's share of the project funded as a grant. DSIR's page speaks of industries and does not say whether early-stage start-ups qualify, so check the guidelines before planning around it. The latest call we saw closed in November 2025.

TDUPW, CRTDHs and the A2K+ events and studies support are different. They are funded through organisations. TDUPW funds institutions, universities, registered societies and trusts that run technology projects for women, self-help groups and women-led enterprises. CRTDHs fund host institutions, such as national laboratories and public funded bodies, to set up shared research and technology facilities near clusters of micro and small enterprises. A founder in those areas is usually a user or a partner of such a project, not the applicant.

Recognitions and tax approvals

Several DSIR schemes are certifications, not programmes with intakes. Recognition of in-house R&D units is something a company applies for, throughout the year, for its own research unit. DSIR says that recognition is needed for some funds from other government departments and for certain fiscal incentives. The Fiscal Incentives scheme covers the weighted tax deduction for research expenditure under section 35(2AB) of the Income Tax Act, for companies with approved in-house R&D centres. Recognition of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations is for non-commercial research bodies, and registration of Public Funded Research Institutions is for universities and similar institutions. These matter to a funded company with a research unit, but they are not a way for a start-up to get a grant.

Who can apply

Eligibility depends entirely on the scheme. PRISM's first phase is open to individuals who are Indian citizens, and its later phases are for successful PRISM innovators or those who have already shown proof of concept with other government support. PRISM's research track is for public funded institutions, autonomous organisations, societies and trusts. TDUPW, CRTDHs, A2K+ events and A2K+ studies are for organisations. PACE is for industries and institutions.

Scale and track record

DSIR's own PRISM publication, Creative India 2025, gives two different sets of figures for what the scheme has achieved: one in its introduction and another on its impact page. Because they do not agree, we have not published a PRISM track-record number here. The publication also profiles fifty innovators and start-ups supported under PRISM, in areas such as clean energy, waste to wealth, smart materials, affordable healthcare and green technology.

How to apply

Each scheme has its own route. PRISM applications go as a single signed PDF to a TOCIC centre, with a copy to DSIR's PRISM mailbox. TDUPW and the A2K+ programmes use the national Service Plus portal. Guidelines and application formats are linked from each scheme's page on the DSIR website. DSIR also lists government vacancies and tenders on the same site.

Where to find DSIR

DSIR is at Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110016. Scheme pages name the officers who head each division, but we do not publish individual contact details here.