Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, launched two schemes, Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences (IMPRESS) and Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC). The aim is to promote higher education research in India. IMPRESS deals with social science research projects and coordinated by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) SPARC involves the foreign collaboration mainly in science research, coordinated by IIT Kharagpur.