Project Proposal

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Project Proposal Preparation
Dr.Ashok Rao Professor, Dept. of ICT, J.S.S.
College, Mysore
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ELEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS
Proposal
Identification of funding Agencies
Follow up
Strength Weakness Organization
Web site Format
News Paper
Annual Reports
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CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS

• Modernization
• Research and Development
• Thrust Area
• Consultancy

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CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS
Modernization

• Upgradation of Infrastructure
• Establishment of Additional Unit
• Establishment of new Center / Laboratory

For Improvement of quality of on going programmes
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CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS
Research and Developments
Promotion of general Research capabilities in the
areas of National interest

• Choice of particular area
• Sponsored Research
• Development of Product
• Patenting
• Collaborative Research
• By call for Proposal in particular area

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All India Council For Technical
Education RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AICTE provides financial assistance under the
schemes of Modernization and Removal of
Obsolescence (MODROBS), Thrust Area Programme in
Technical Education (TAPTEC) and Research
Development (RD) in the field of Engineering
and Technology. To ensure effective
implementation of these programmes, the Council
has set up a Committee, namely, the Board of
Research (BOR), comprising of eminent
Scientists, Engineers, Academicians,
Industrialists and Technologists.
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All India Council For Technical
Education RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Brief objective of these schemes are given below
  
• MODERNISATION REMOVAL OF OBSOLESCENCE
  (MODROBS)
• THRUST AREA PROGRAMME IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION
  (TAPTEC)
• RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT (RD)
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
  PROGRAMME
• INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE INTERACTION

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CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS
Thrust Area

• Representative list of Thrust Area of the
  funding agency to be referred
• Identification of Thrust Area for making
  Proposal

Promotion of excellence and need based Research
in identified Thrust Area for National
development
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CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS
Consultancy

• Invitation
• - Advertisement
• - Direct request on specific area

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Basic Principles
Consistency Clarity Credibility Confidence
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Basic Information
Common to all Project - Covers more than 40 of
the proposals

• Creation of Database about the Organization
• Information about parent organization - JSS MVP
• Strength of the Organization
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

• Table indicating
• - Infrastructure
• - Staff strength
• - Achievements
• - Papers published
• - Awards
• - Training Programme
• - Consultancy
• - Grants received from
  other agencies
• by the organization

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Preamble
On the proposed subject of the project

• History
• Definition
• Current Scenario
• Need of the Project

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Format
Normally the funding agency requires the proposal
in the prescribed format

• Existing facility
• Achievements
• Grants received during last 5 years
• Major projects under taken

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

• Resource generated during last 5 years
• Current research activities
• List of equipments costing above 5 lakhs
• Library facility
• Computers Network facilities
• Details of plan of the organization for next 5
  years

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Object Goals of the project

• Representation by Schematic Diagrams
• Conduction of Conferences
• Short-Term Programmes
• Fellowships
• Research plans

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Resource sharing with other Institutes IITs
IISc.
Strong Research Team building
Product Development
Image Processing Vision Center
Publications
R D
Free Consultancy
Applications
Useful to Society
Biometrics
Medical Imaging
Resource identification
Blind rehabilitation
Food Research
Speech Hearing
Defense
Fig.3 Schematic Proposed Project Objective of IP
CV Centre
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Resource identification via Pattern
Recognition eg., Forest resource, mineral
resource etc
Water marking audio, video
Rural Upliftment
Image Procesing eg Compression, Restoration,
Zooming etc.,
Pattern Recognition eg Data Analysis
Early Blind Identification
Image Processing Computer Vision Research
Medical Imaging eg., early detection of cancer
Speech Hearing Impairment detection
Scientific Forensic Analysis e.g., Finger Print
Analysis, Face recognition etc.,
Image Compression Studies for JPEG MPEG using
DCT Wavelets
Watermarking for image and documents
Image Restoration eg Internet,
Multimedia, Picture Restoration, etc.,
Fig - Technical Profile of the Proposed Project
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Justification of Proposal

• Survey reports
• Seminars Workshop Recommendations
• Studies / Published data
• Gaps felt and anticipated demand of the Projects

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Approach, Methodology Work Plan

• Implementation of the Project

- Planning - Work Plan and time Schedule -
Phase wise, year wise - Advisory Group
- Identification and Approval
- Charts, Photographs Clippings
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Budget
Recurring
- Staff Salaries - Equipment Maintenance -
Stationary, Contingencies
Non Recurring
- Land - Building - Equipment - Furniture
etc.,
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Fig. Resource Utilization

A. Equipment B. Infrastructure C. Networking
Computational Facilities D. Maintenance
25.5L
5.35L
24.8L
L- Lakh Rupees
2.26L
20L
2.5L
4.5L
4.5L
4.25L
4.25L

1 2
3 4
5
Year
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Out come of the Project

• Expected output on implementation
• Benefit to the public

Annexures
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FUNDING AGENCIES

• All India Council for Technical Education
  (AICTE)
• University Grants Commission (UGC)
• Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• Defense R D Organization (DRDO)
• Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
• Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

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OTHER INFORMATION
1. http//www.aicte.ernet.in 2.
http//www.drdo.com 3. http//www.vigyan.org.in 4.
http//www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/india/epg/
proposal0111.html 5. www.mit.gov.in 6.
www.nic.in 7. www.isro.org
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