PI of ITMU: Dr. Susanta Kumar Jena

Co-PIs of ITMU:

• Dr. Debabrata Sethi
• Er. Ajit Kumar Nayak

Name of the Director:

• Dr. Arjamadutta Sarangi

• Infrastructure facilities available at ITMU:+

  Is there any Separate Room or Building for ITMU with Proper Labeling Sign Board: Yes/No

  (If yes, then please add the photograph:)

  

  Your institute is counting the NAIF (Innovation Fund and Incubation Fund) activities as: PROJECT or in general institution building activities: Project

  If treated as “Project,” how much time (lump-sum) are you spending on these activities e.g. 5%, 10%, 20%, etc.)of your total duty hours in a month/year : 10%

  Also mention the date of your joining this project as PI: 17th July 2023

  Name of the Designation under NAIF: Principal Investigator (PI)/Member Secretary/Incharge/Nodal Officer or any other name: Principal Investigator

• Constitution of ITMC/ ZTMC +

  Date of constitution: 13.06.2014 (revised on 17.07.2023)

  Chair/Members/Member Secretary:

  • Chairman: Director, Dr. Arjamadutta Sarangi
  • Member Secretary: Dr. Susanta Kumar Jena, Pr. Scientist & PI-ITMU
  • Member, PME I/C: Dr. A.K. Thakur, Principal Scientist
  • Member: Dr. K.K. Bandyopadhya, Principal Scientist
  • Member: Dr. H. K. Dash, Principal Scientist
  • Member: Dr. Asish Maity, Principal Scientist
  • Member: Dr. Rajesh Kumar, ICAR-CIFA (External Member)

  Item	2023-24				2024-25
  Quarterly	Qtr-I	Qtr-II	Qtr-III	Qtr-IV	01st Quarter (April to June)	Total	Target
  No. of ITMCs meetings conducted			1	1 (+2 workshops)	One workshop		4

• ITMC Meeting “Decisions in bullets” (Not more than 5 points) +

  Sl	Title of application	ITMC recommendation/ suggestion
  1	Permission for applying copy right on “Android based mobile app for ICAR-IIWM Farm”	Recommended for copyright
  2	Copyright for “Estimation of reference evapotranspiration using Machine learning with sparse data”.	Recommended for copyright
  3	Copyright for “Code for embedding Soil moisture-voltage relationship for different soil types in microcontroller”.	Recommended for copyright
  4	Patent on “Cost-effective and Calibrated IoT-enabled capacitance-based soil moisture sensor”.	The patent application may be prepared as per the desired format

• IP Portfolio Management +

  Item	2023-24								2024-25
  Quarterly	I		II		III		IV		01st Quarter (April to June)		Total		Target
  	Filed	Granted	Filed	Granted	Filed	Granted	Filed	Granted	Filed	Granted	Filed	Granted
  Patents* filed/granted									0	0			1
  Plant Varieties in PPVFRA
  Copy rights					1	1	2				3	1	1
  Trademark
  Design
  Logo													1
  Total					1	1	2				3	1

  *Name of technology/innovation/invention filed/granted as patent with their innovators

• Technology licensing/commercialization by ITMU/ZTMC +

  Item	2023-2024	2024-2025 01st Quarter (April to June)	Total	Target
  No. of technology licensed	-	-	-
  No. of licensee	-	-	-
  Revenue generated

• Technology licensing/commercialization through AgrInnovate India Ltd. +

  Item	2023-2024	2024-2025 01st Quarter (April to June)	Total	Target
  No. of technology licensed	-	-
  No. of licensee	-	-
  Revenue generated	-	-

• Conducting IP awareness/capacity building program +

  Item	2023-24				2024-25
  Quarterly	I	II	III	IV	01st Quarter (April to June)	Total	Target
  No. of entrepreneurs/startups*
  No. of programs for Scientific/ technical staff*	1 (60)			2 (50 + 50)	1 (50)	4	3
  No. of programs for farmers*
  Others, if any

  *Type of participants (Scientists/Scholars/Farmers/Business People etc.) alongwith numbers may also be stated

• Professional Service Functions-Training/Consultancy/Contract research/Contract Services +

  Item	2023-24				2024-25
  Quarterly	I	II	III	IV	01st Quarter (April to June)	Total	Target
  No. of Training		3	3	4		10
  No. of Consultancy	1			3		4
  No. of Contract research
  No. of Contract service
  Revenue generated				25		25	30

• Industry Meet if conducted during the period (2023-2024) & 01st Quarter (April to June, 2024) +

  Industry Meet		Target
  No. of Industries attended the programme: -	-
  Total no. of participants: -	-
  No. of technologies showcase: -	-
  No. of technologies for which industry showing keen interest: -	-
  No. of Technology Transferred: -	-

• Visibility in Media including at ICAR sites +
  • Website link if any; ITMU activities displayed on institute website (add photo of the webpage)

  https://iiwm.icar.gov.in/institute-technology-management-unit-itmu

  • No. of Contractual Staff with Position and their Qualification

   
                          No of Contractual Staff- 1
                          Position/ Designation- Young Professional-II
                          Qualification- M. Tech. in Soil & Water Conservation Engineering
                      

• Budget of ITMU/ZTMC +

  

  Status of Budget of ITMU/ZTMC

  Item	2023-24				2024-25
  Quarterly	I (April to June)	II (July to September)	III (October to December)	IV (January to March)	01st Quarter (April to June)	Total
  Budget released (Rs. in lakhs)				0.95	2.0	2.95
  Expenditure				0.9299	0.93391 (excluding June salary)	1.86381
  Refund/Unutilized				0.02010	1.06609	1.08619