The Second National Consultative Meeting on reforming India’s Research and Development (R&D) ecosystem was conducted at the CSIR – Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), Dehradun, Uttarakhand. This ongoing initiative by NITI Aayog aims to enable a forward-looking, innovation-driven, and resilient research ecosystem in the country, with a particular focus on strengthening the capacities of government-funded R&D institutions and laboratories.
NITI Aayog emphasized the critical need to transform India’s government-funded R&D institutions into dynamic, autonomous, and mission-driven ecosystems. Conference stressed that scientific research must be unshackled from bureaucratic delays and rigid hierarchies and instead be empowered through decentralized decision-making, timely funding, and performance-based accountability. The session the need to rejuvenate R&D infrastructure, particularly in tier 2 and tier 3 institutions, and to strengthen industry-academia partnerships to foster impactful translational research.
