Government spending on research and development expanded at IITs and IISc.
This information was made public in response to a question posed in the Lok Sabha concerning whether the government has directed the relevant departments to start taking action to release funds that have been delayed for longer than a year in a timely way.
Based on information provided by Dr. Subhas Sarkar, the State Minister in the Ministry of Education, India comes in third place for the quantity of PhDs in Science and Engineering (S&E) granted. The total number of publications has also climbed, from 6,61,912 in the years 2012–2016 to 10,12,624 in the years 2017–2021, according to the Elsevier Report.