Research Advisory Committee (RAC)

The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) constituted under the Chairmanship of an external expert, is an advisory body. Apart from the Chairman, the Committee consists of 3 to 4 subject specialists besides the Director (Tech.) and a representative from RCS, CO, CSB and two representatives of farmer/ reeler and two to five DOS officials from the command area states as member covering under the institute to the meeting as members. Director of the respective Institute would act as a Member Convener. Based on the requirement, the Committee may invite any Director of CSB institute. The Committee meets once in six months for one day in the Institute and the tenure of the Committee would be three years. The approved Concept Notes would be formulated as new full-fledged project proposals and will be submitted to the referees (at least five) for obtaining their comments. The project proposals with comments from at least three referees would be presented in the RAC. The RAC at its discretion would recommend, modify or reject the proposal based on the scientific quality, priority/need and relevance of the study.

List of RAC Chairman and Members