New Delhi, May 13 -- The Technology Development Board (TDB) has received 124 proposals worth nearly Rs 25,000 crore within three months of launching the call for proposals under the Research Development and Innovation (RDI) scheme, with funding demand from the scheme estimated at around Rs 10,000 crore, TDB Secretary Rajesh Kumar Pathak told ANI on Wednesday.

"When we launched our proposal on 1st of February, within three months we got 124 proposals with Rs 25,000 crore, project worth and the ask from RDI is around Rs 10,000 crore. So lots of interest is there in this scheme," Pathak said in an exclusive interview with ANI in the national capital.

He was speaking on the sidelines of the first agreement signing with Emerging Technology E...