India, Aug. 7 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Government today reaffirmed that the Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund is being implemented through a robust institutional framework founded on transparency, merit-based evaluation and stringent conflict-of-interest safeguards. Addressing a press conference on "Conflict-of-Interest Safeguards and Disbursement under the Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund," senior officials of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Technology Development Board (TDB) and Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) elaborated on the governance architecture, evaluation mechanisms and institutional safeguards that underpin the Fund, reiterating that every fu...