Research Institute & Regional Centres

RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND REGIONAL CENTRES

Research Institutes and Regional Centres Division (RI&RC) provides maintenance and development grants to Research Institutes and maintains Regional Centres in different regions of the country. The Research Institutes are of all India character- outside the scope of the University Grants Commission (UGC). The main objectives are :

• Dispersal of talent from more developed to less developed regions, especially, to areas where social science research are under developed; and
• Development of quality of research and interdisciplinary research in social sciences in order to improve the social science inputs into development.

The Council is at present assisting 24 Research Institutes, 6 Regional Centres and it has 17 new category of ICSSR recognised Institutes located in different regions of India.