About

• The Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) has been established with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) 2023 Act. 
• The ANRF aims to seed, grow and promote research and development (R&D) and foster a culture of research and innovation throughout India’s universities, colleges, research institutions, and R&D laboratories. 
• ANRF will act as an apex body to provide high-level strategic direction of scientific research in the country as per recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP). 
• With the establishment of ANRF, the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) established by an act of Parliament in 2008 has been subsumed into ANRF.  
• ANRF will forge collaborations among the industry, academia, and government departments and research institutions, and create an interface mechanism for participation and contribution of industries and State governments in addition to the scientific and line ministries.

Why in News?

• The executive and governing boards of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) has no representation from Indian industry, suggests a perusal of the list of members made public by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) recently. 
• There is also no presence of State universities, who the ANRF had said would be among the major beneficiaries of the new structure.
• The absence of Indian industry is glaring as the ANRF Act, passed in 2023, was expected to galvanise research by having close to ₹36,000 crore or 70% of its five-year outlay of ₹50,000 crore from “non-government sources, industry & philanthropists, from domestic as well as outside sources”.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/no-indian-industry-in-board-of-revamped-national-research-foundation/article68364162.ece#:~:text=The%20absence%20of%20Indian%20industry,as%20outside%20sources%E2%80%9D%2C%20Science%20Minister