Islamabad:Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) has considered 141 research proposals in ten scientific fields during the year 2021-22 under its Research Support Initiatives in the field of science and technology.
According to the annual performance report for the year 2021-22, out of the total 141 proposals, 72 projects were under-process while 27 projects were approved by the Executive Committee for funding at total cost of Rs95.537 million.
An amount of Rs25.672 million were released on account of first instalments of already approved projects. Whereas, 54 research projects were remained ongoing and an amount of Rs5.607 million was released on account of due instalments and evaluation fee of these projects.
The project proposals were related to the various scientific fields including agricultural sciences, biological sciences, biotechnology and genetic engineering, chemistry, computer sciences or maths, earth sciences, engineering sciences, health sciences, environmental sciences and physics.
In total 19 progress reports (semi annual, 1st, 2nd annual and final) of these projects were received. Semi-annual reports were scrutinized by PSF staff, whereas, the annual and final reports, were sent for evaluation to the subject experts to assess the interim progress of the projects. Based upon the results of three completed projects, nine research papers were published in national and international journals.