THE country's premier scientific and
research centre - Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR) - WCMS
to be desperate about changing its
image. Soon after launching the New
Idea Fund to generate pathbreaking
ideas, the institute announced an ambitious scheme to redesign the organisational set-up on corporate lines. So what
we will have, is a group of profit-making
research laboratories, each of whom will
function like a company.
Titled 'Vision-2001 AD', the plan
envisages a reduction in grant-in-aid
from the present 70 per cent of
budget to 50 per cent, a significant
increase in the customer-fees for
research and development (R&D) and
technical services and generating
income from non-R&D activities like
consultancy.
All this would be done according
to the 'virtual corporate entity' concept
with an aim to seek autonomy in
financial and personnel management.
Autonomy to the laboratories would
be granted depending upon their
output and profit. New findings
would first be patented and then
published in journals. Incentives, remuneration packages, career advancement
schemes and performance-based
rewards will be introduced to attract talented scientists.
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