User:Samusjp/NRC National Research Council of Sri Lanka

The NRC National Research Council of Sri Lanka is a public body which plan and co-ordinates research in the country. It will facilitate research in the public sector Scientific Research and Development Organizations and its researchers through the many programmes it conducts, so as to build, strengthen and derive the maximum benefit for the country’s economic development, and the social welfare of its people.

Vision "to enable Sri Lanka to achieve, by 2017, the status of a knowledge and science based, newly developed country"

Objectives

(i) to bring in private sector and industry representation in addition to the highly productive academics into the Council;

(ii) to promote fundamental and applied research and facilitate human resource development in all disciplines of Science by funding University based Research Students registered for Higher Research Degrees;

(iii) to plan and coordinate the research effort of researchers in each Public Sector Scientific Research and Development Institutes;

(iv) to facilitate the research and evaluate the performance of individual researchers in the Public Sector Scientific Research and Development Institutes and make periodic recommendations through the Presidential Secretariat to the Treasury for funding such research;

(v) to promote, fund and facilitate collaborative research programmes between Researchers in Public Sector Scientific Research and Development Institutes and Universities leading to the award of Higher Research Degrees by the Universities;

(vi) to promote and facilitate partnerships among the industry, Universities and the Public Sector Scientific Research and Development Institutes;

(vii) to develop systems of national recognition and awards for successful research and innovations; and;

(viii) to foster and sustain a Science and Technology Research Culture and Community in Sri Lanka that would respond productively to national development needs.

Programs of NRC


 * The NRC Research Grant Programme


 * The Presidential Awards for Research


 * The PhD Training Programme


 * Development of Research Laboratories and


 * The National Development Programme.

Establishment

The National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC) was founded by H. E. the President Kumaratunga on 20 April 1999 and Prof. Aries Kovoor was appointed as the founder Chairman.

In July 2007, His Excellency the President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, issued a warrant formalizing the establishment of the National Research Council as a Special Agency, exercising the powers vested in him by Article33 of the Constitution, and Prof. Eric Karunanayake was appointed Chairman.

References

^http://documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2007/pdf/Sep/1514-28/1514_28e.pdf, additional text.