The institution / organisation concerned will access the categories and number of research and development staff with field of specialisation required for each project on individual basis. The appropriate specialised panel will examine this requirement keeping in view the nature of problems, competence levels and time scales involved. The recommendations of the panel will be put up to the appropriate sanctioning authority of the board for approval of the financial grant for the staff.
Once a proposal for staff has been approved by the Board the institution / organisation concerned will be responsible for recruitment of staff and will ensure that the normal recruitment procedures and audit rules are observed. For the AR&DB projects of short duration the grantee institute could evolve temporary norms for speedy recruitment / execution of the project.
The staff on the project will be appointed only when all facilities for conducting the work on the project are available. In case of the staff leaving the institution prior to the completion of work it will be the responsibility of the head of the institution to see the continuity of the work is maintained.
The staffs employed under the Grants-in-aid scheme are full time employees for research work on the project. They should not be engaged for routine lecture or demonstration work in the institutions in which the projects are based.
The staff appointed on research projects are for all practical purposes, treated as employees and are subject to the administrative control and rules (leave, TA/DA, etc.) of the institution / university where projects are based.
In the case where the investigator is already employed in the institution and has to work on Grants-in-aid project in addition to his normal duty in the institution, the time spent by him on the project will be treated as part of his duty. Where this is not possible the case will be examined by the appropriate specialist panel for granting to the investigator an honorarium, which will be further considered by the Board for approval.
The staff on projects could be employed in pay scales as applicable to institute norms as per the scales laid down by Deptt. of Science & Technology (DST), if applicable.
