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CAPACITY BUILDING 7.4 Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Regional Cancer
Centre (RCC) and Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) receive Government funding under
‘Scientific Services and Research’ in Kerala .

7.5 Plan allocation and expenditure (including SDG) of KSCSTE and RCC during the 11th Plan and
Annual Plan 2012-13 is indicated in the Table 7.1 below.

Table 7.1 (` in Lakhs)
Year wise Plan Outlay and Expenditure

KSCSTE RCC Total

Plan Plan Plan % Plan Plan % Plan Plan

Outlay Expenditure Outlay Expenditure Outlay Expenditure %

11th FYP 22,768 14,265.9 62 7,565 7,965 105 30,333 22,230.9 73

2013-14 7920 5676.80 71 4242 4242 100 12112 9893.80 81

Source: PLANSPACE; and CPMU, Government of Kerala

7.6 Funds allocated to KSCSTE and RCC during 2013-14 were mainly used for the following catego-
ries of expenditure:-

1) Research and Development
2) Expansion, Augmentation and upgradation of Infrastructure
3) Promotion of Science & Scientific Research, Dissemination of Knowledge, Up gradation of Hu-

man Resource capabilities

Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment

7.7 The Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) was established in
2003 to promote excellence in science and technology through learning, research and development
with the involvement of academia, industry, research organizations and to benefit the society through
science and technology interventions with the involvement of user agencies and beneficiaries.
Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) was constituted as an
autonomous body of the Govt. of Kerala by restructuring the erstwhile State Committee on Science,
Technology and Environment. The primary objective of the Council is to implement Science and
Technology Programmes to enhance the socio- economic development as well as quality of life
and environment of the State. The Council also intends to revamp and streamline the science and
technology programmes to make them more responsive to the development needs of the State, and
help in the transformation of Kerala as a knowledge economy..

7.8 There are eight Research & Development Centers functioning under the umbrella of the Council
viz., Centre for Water Resource Management and Development (CWRDM), Kerala Forest Research
Institute (KFRI), National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC), Jawaharlal
Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Srinivasa Ramanujam Institute for
Basic Sciences (SRIBS), State Centre Resource Inistitute for Partnership in Technologies (SCRIPT)
, Critical Miniral reserach Inistitute (CMRI) and Kerala School of Mathematics (KSM).The Council
also supports three grant-in-aid institutions namely, Sophisticated Test and Instrumentation Centre
(STIC), Integrated Rural Technology Centre (IRTC) and Malabar Botanical Garden Society (MBGS).
The council also undertakes, co-ordinates and oversees many research programmes through the
Universities and other R&D facilities established by the State and Central Governments.

Kerala State Planning Board