Waste Management Technologies program is aligned to the “Swachh Bharat Mission” or “Clean India Mission” of the Government. DST initiated a special program on Waste Management Technologies WMT in October 2015, and constituted a high level Expert Advisory Committee EAC-WMT. Waste Management encompass a variety of interventions in the generation, prevention, characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse and ultimate residual disposal of solid wastes. Main Objectives of the program includes Take stock of technological development, assess, analyse and look for material recycling systems with low environment loading and improve upon them or find better alternatives Develop waste management technologies that can be adopted in small medium scale enterprises in order to improve their productivity and global competitiveness and Establish techno-economic feasibility of proposed methodologies/ technologies. The program aims to promote the development of suitable technologies with potential to ameliorate the environmental load from the huge amount of residuals generated by industrial development and consumption lifestyle. The focus is mainly on four areas a Electronic Waste, b Hospital Waste, c Plastic Waste, and d Solid Waste from Mining, Metallurgical Ceramic Industries. Technology Development Projects will be undertaken by RD agencies, in association with industry, to develop pre-competitive technologies/ techniques/ processes. The selection of projects is based on the criteria of novelty scientific uniqueness, thereby DST aims to promote innovative technologies that can have commercial potential.

The Government has set a growth target for the manufacturing sector from 16 of GDP to reach 25 of GDP by 2025. The National Manufacturing Policy and the emphasis on “Make in India” is a powerful strategy for economic development. In accordance with this objective, DST has initiated this program for developing Advanced Manufacturing Technologies in October 2015, and a high level Expert Advisory Committee EAC-AMT was set up, chaired by Prof. Rudra Pratap, Center for Nano Science Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Five thrust areas were selected for developing novel manufacturing technologies a Nano materials surfaces, b Robotics automation c Precision manufacturing d Manufacturing process of Pharmaceuticals Bio manufacturing e Advanced forming near net shaped processing. The objectives of the program are to Encourage RD labs to move some of their activities from “discovery research” towards “industrially relevant RD” and to Encourage inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research programs for innovation.

Biomedical Device and Technology Development

The Department under its Technology Development Programme TDP has been promoting and supporting activities related to indigenous development of innovative technologies in identified areas. During recent past, DST has supported the development of many technologies at various RD laboratories/ institutions. This has resulted in development of various technologies and subsequent transfer of know-how to various production agencies for their commercial production. Technology Development Programmes TDP One of the key objectives of the Department of Science Technology is to promote technology development in various fields. The Department has been supporting Technology development projects which include materials, devices and processes. The Programme supports activities aimed at developing technologies both in the advanced/emerging areas and in traditional sectors/areas. Under the Programme, feasibility of fresh ideas/ concepts is also assessed for their potential conversion into useful technology/product. Mandate of TDP The mandate of Technology Development Programmes TDP is to convert proof-of-concepts for technologies/ techniques/ processes/products into advance prototypes for validation and demonstration in actual field settings. The commercialization of these technologies needs further assessment/incubation, which does not fall in the scope of the Technology Development Programme. Transfer of technology developed under the project to the industry should ideally be the onus of the host institutions. Proposals for incremental RD over the existing technologies are also considered for support. Projects related to design and development of Software/IT, as required for products and processes, as a part of technology development project shall be considered. Pure software development does not fall in the scope of the Programme. AIM • Support RD for development of innovative technologies in identified areas. • Promote application of advanced technology for improving the performance and value addition to existing technology. • Capacity building in the area of technology development. • Identify and support RD groups which have developed depth/strength in a particular scientific domain. In 2021, the Golden Jubilee year of the Department, a New Call for Proposal is planned to invite proposals from scientists/engineers/ technologists working in academic institutions/RD institutions/laboratories having adequate infrastructure/ facilities to carry out Technology Development work/prototype building. Financial support will be provided for indigenous development of innovative technologies in identified areas. As parts of a wider set of nation-building initiatives, some of the areas as given below are identified from ’Make in India’ initiative. Also Hon’ble Prime Minister made a clarion call for an “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” or a self-reliant India that would be a source of local ingenuity creating global impact. 1. Construction, infrastructure and low-cost building Materials 2. Advance Materials Processing 3. Agro-Product Processing and Agro-IT technologies including Food processing technologies 4. Innovative Product Development 5. Technologies for Disaster Management 6. Any other Technology for Product design and Development for Import Substitution proposed by the PI

To bring generic drugs which are off- patent. To develop process chemistry for drugs under patent to make it affordable once patent expires