In the recent past, the IT industry has emerged as a major contributor to the industry revenue as well as employment opportunity provider in the country. Though the Indian IT industry has been driven by software development services in the beginning, the trend is changing. The country is becoming an R&D hub of multinational IT companies. Several India-based multinational IT giants also have set up their R&D and innovation centres. The Government views R&D as essential for the implementation of new initiatives such as Digital India, Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat and has launched R&D initiatives in the emerging technology areas.

Objective

The objective is to promote Research and Development in the Emerging areas of Information Technology for development of new technologies/ software to address the various societal/ industrial/ business/ government needs. The major thrust areas include Emerging Areas of Information Technology (IT) are as follows:

• Quantum Technology
• Blockchain based solutions
• Non-financial Web3 Applications
• Perception and Cognitive Engineering
• AR/VR/ Metaverse
• Digital Twin
• Multisensory Immersion
• Deepfake
• Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Artificial Wisdom
• Edge computing
• Industry 5.00++, Society 5.00++
• Big Data Analytic
• Green Computing
• Digital Preservation
• Free and Open Source Software 

Call for Project Proposal

• Date extension:Notification-Call for Proposals R&D in IT284.59 KB
• Notification-Call for Proposals R&D in IT282.16 KB

• Performa for submitting R&D Project Proposal177.43 KB
• Terms & Conditions for Grant-in-aid292.94 KB

R&D Society

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

For more details http://cdac.in/

Projects

For further information please contact:

Smt. Sunita Verma
Group Coordinator & Senior Director
R&D in Information Technology
Phone: 011-24364810
email: sunita[at]meity[dot]gov[dot]in