Project Monitoring Framework

The scheme maintains an active, milestone-driven monitoring process to ensure research accountability and grant effectiveness:

Half-Yearly Reporting

Project progress would be assessed half-yearly following the DST-SERB / DBT / CSIR template/model. Project reports would be submitted to the online portal. IISc would be the single point source for progress data or any query from MoE regarding STARS.

Midterm Evaluations

Online information will be evaluated by the Domain Expert Committee. For midterm evaluation, the 'Details of Principal Investigator (PI)' will be called for presentation before the Committee.

Hand-Holding & Remediation

If the project progress is not satisfactory, the committee may consider recommending close monitoring / hand-holding and assign domain experts to help. The Domain Expert Committee may also recommend termination of the project in case progress is deemed poor or in cases where there is substantial deviation from the sanctioned goals of the grant. In case of pre-mature termination, refund of already sanctioned amount would be the liability of the researcher and/or his institution.

Apex Oversight

In every meeting of the Apex Committee, a status report on ongoing projects would be presented by IISc.