CRIG- A Novel Initiative

The Core Research & Innovation Group (CRIG) is a unique initiative of Rabindranath Tagore University to foster research culture in the University. Research work demands large number of resources in terms of money, time and infrastructure with attached uncertainly of result and longer time scale for success. Private Universities have to mostly depend on own resources and that is the reason that, in private universities, not much research activities seen. But Rabindranath Tagore University is a lot different. Research is a core area here. To underline the concern the Core Research Group has been set up. With initial funding of 1 Crore basic research facilities were set up in Rabindranath Tagore University. The CRIG has been further given a seed budget of Rs. 1 Crore annually starting from 2017 with following objective:-

Advisory Board

The Group Composition
Chairman	Shri Santosh Choubey, Chancellor, RNTU
Director	Prof. Vijay Kant Verma, Chancellor, CVRU, Vaishali, Bihar
Member	Prof. Bramh PrakashPethiya, VC, RNTU, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Member	Prof. R.P. Dubey, VC, CVRU,Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Member	Prof. R.K. Pandey, VC, CVRU,Vaishali, Bihar
Member	Prof. S.K. Shrivastava, VC,AU, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
Member	Prof. Amitabh Saxena, VC, CVRUKhandwa,MP
Member	Dr. Mohamed Ouessar, IRA, Tunisia
Member	Mr. Richard Hopkins, ORCA, Australia
Member	Prof. S Sapra UCF, USA
Member	Prof. FJ Manjon UPV, Spain
Member	Prof. Weicheng W U, ECUT, China
Member	Prof. Joel Kibiiy, Moi University, Kenya
Member	Prof. M. Sundarrajan, (Science)
Member	Prof. Salim Abbas Bhai Chaniwala (Energy)
Member	Prof. Tarun Pandya (Management)
Member	Dr. Vimal Kumar Sharma(Science)
Member	Prof. Murali Mantrala (Management)
Member	Prof. Sandhya Chaturvedi (Sociology)
Member	Dr. RN Yadav(Environment)
Member	Prof CK Ghosh (Engineering)
Member	Maj Gen Chaturvedi (Technology)
Member	Dr. SR Awasthi (Renewable Energy)
Member	Dr. Dinesh Kumar Soni(Engineering)
Member	Dr. Anil Kurchania(Agriculture)

Areas for Research