Department of Science and Technology (DST) has taken several new initiatives for promoting innovation, supporting cutting-edge research, attracting the youth towards science, improving the ease of doing science, and fostering international collaborations. The department has aligned its activities with the National Agenda of the Government towards Make in India, Startup India, Digital India, Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat, etc, and has moved ahead with several achievements.
| Title of Innovation | Innovator's Name | Research Area | Implementing Organization | Funding Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underwater Plastic MaNogement for Synthetic fuel production using Pyrolysis | Dr. Shikha Bhuyan | — | Tezpur University, Assam | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater repair and mainteNonce of corroded steel structure using fiber-reinforced polymer Nonocomposites. | Dr. Sushen Kirtania (Tezpur University) | — | Tezpur University, Assam | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater Surveillance of Contiguous Objects Through Drones via Differential Subspace Re-weighted Modelling | Dr. Karan Nathwani Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu | — | Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater Surveillance Perception Quality Assessment: A Multi modal perception quality assessment framework for object detection and recognition in Autonomous under water vehicles | Dr. M. Brindha (NIT Tirchi) | — | — | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater Vehicle for water quality monitoring of river bodies | Prof. B K Roy | — | NIT Silchar, Assam | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater Vision Based Surveillance and Tracking using Machine Learning | Dr. Pooja Agrawal | — | Defence Institute Of Advanced Technology, Maharashtra | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Underwater Vision, Monitoring, Surveillance, Intelligence and Tracking | Dr. Roshan M Borkar (NIPER-Guwahati) | — | — | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Unified Framework for Collaborative Intelligent Systems | Dr. Albert Sunny | — | Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Unified frameworks for registration of IoT Devices and categorization of IoT use cases | Dr Sachin Paramane | — | — | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
| Unmanned aerial nut and fruit harvesting device | Rajendra S Gad | — | Goa University, Goa | Department of Science and Technology (DST) |