Recruitment & Assessment Board

A CSIR HRM Initiative operational since 2002

To ensure continuous supply of a well motivated highly specified skillful human resource directly required for R&D activities of

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• Foundation for excellence for a highly diversified knowledge organisation like CSIR

• Select the best

• Train them

• Put them in the right places

• Career advancement clearly chalked out

11. Career Prospects of Scientists … a scientist is subjected to too many stages for promotion, unlike other

scientific institutions like the IITs …. … the assessments itself are delayed, which adds to the frustration amongst the scientists.

11.1 The Committee feels that if science in India has to progress, the scientists have to be respected and provided proper incentives through faster promotional avenues. … bureaucratic hurdles such as performance assessment should be strictly avoided to attract the best possible talent …The Committee also recommends that the Department should take up the issue regarding improvement in the pay scales of the scientists vigorously with the government to ensure best possible career prospects for them.

Parliamentary Standing Committee on S &T, E & F

April 2010

Need for RAB

• A proposal to Ministry of Finance on revised pay structure and career progression for CSIR scientists vis-a-vis the implementation of 5th Pay Commission.

• Ministry of Finance, Dept. of Expenditure recommends that CSIR modify their Rectt. and Assmt. Pattern/criteria on the DRDO pattern.

• In Oct. 2001 CSIR introduced “CSIR Scientists’ Recruitment & Assessment Promotion Rules 2001 (CSRAP)” for Group IV Scientists on the pattern prevailing at DRDO.

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RAB’s mandate

• Providing an effective, fair & transparent system of recruitment and assessment acceptable to all stakeholders.

• Attracting the very best talent to CSIR including through global search.

• Ensuring progressive career advancement of CSIR scientists as the highest degree of motivational measure and with an ultimate aim of developing leadership at a younger age.

• Extending the expertise base for external customers, whenever required.

Recruitment and Assessment Board

Powers & Functions of the Board • 1. To review and devise procedure for recruitment and assessment.

• 2. To recommended modifications in the R & A Promotion rules.

• 3. To suggest ways and means to overcome operational difficulties. • 4. Constitution of Assessment Committees • 5. To consider cases of assessment of scientists, who are under cloud and

posthumous cases as per existing CSIR Rules/Procedures. • 6. To discuss and suggest its budgetary and logistic requirements to DG,

CSIR for consideration. • 7. Chairman, RAB may take a decision in the exigencies of work with regard

to recruitment and assessment of scientists.

Recruitment and Assessment Board

Present functions of RAB Sectt.

• Review of R & A Policies.

• Amendments to the provisions of CSRAP Rules.

• Assessment Promotion for B’s to EII’s.

• Constitution of Selection Committees.

• Screening and assessment from F to G.

• Selection of Scientist G’s.

Recruitment and Assessment Board

HR Process

Assessments carried out

Recruitment and Assessment Board

Year B to F F to G

2000-01 616 } 156

2001-02 785

2002-03 924 165

2003-04 897 242

2004-05 996 362

2005-06 863 371

2006-07 751 385

2007-08 642 402

2008-09 360 Phase I 326

Total 6834 2409

Assessment activity during 2007-08

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Level No. of Candidates

assessed Committees constituted

B to F 642 562

F to G 282 57

Recruitment and Assessment Board

Recruitment: The process

A. Through open Advertisement:

Limited role of RAB for multiplicity of subjects.

– Notification for positions. - LAB

– Screening of applications. - LAB

– Constitution of selection committee, and relaxations - RAB, DG

– Conducting interviews. - LAB

– Approval of the proceedings. - RAB

– Issuing offer of selection. - LAB

Staff strength and recruitment pattern is decided by RC.

I. For levels where Director is the Appointing Authority

Recruitment: The process

B. On the BARC School model, CSIR trains BE/B. Tech. degree holders for two years as QHFs, with award of MTech degree – meritorious candidates will be absorbed at Scientist C level.

C. Campus selection at IITs for M. Tech. degree holders have been initiated as ad hoc Sc C’s.

I. For levels where Director is the Appointing Authority

Recruitment: The process

II. For levels where Appointing Authority is VP, CSIR or President, CSIR

RAB is responsible for the selection of Scientist G, OS* & DS*. Directors appointed through search-cum-selection at CSIR Hq.

* Just initiated.

HR Analysis, Planning & Policy

Gr IV Scientists in CSIR as on 1-10-2008

IV(6) 319

IV(1) 687

IV(2) 687

IV(3) 695

IV(4) 1017

IV(5) 979

Gr IV Scientists in CSIR approx. on 1-1-2012

IV(6) 510

IV(1) 311

IV(2) 844

IV(3) 691

IV(4) 782

IV(5) 900

Total: 4038

Position of Gr. IV Scientists as on 1 - 10 - 2008

Lab Gr. IV (1) - B

Gr. IV (2) - C

Gr. IV (3) - EI

Gr. IV (4) - EII

Gr. IV (5) - F

Gr. IV (6) - G Total

AMPRI 5 5 11 12 11 4 48

CBRI 1 11 15 18 21 4 70

CCMB 18 21 8 29 14 9 99

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NML 30 28 19 29 22 16 144

NPL 27 26 27 33 59 29 201

SERC 16 10 15 17 24 5 87

TOTAL 687 687 695 1017 979 319 4384

Position of Gr. IV Scientists as reported up to 2012

Lab Gr. IV (1) - B

Gr. IV (2) - C

Gr. IV (3) - EI

Gr. IV (4) - EII

Gr. IV (5) - F

Gr. IV (6) - G Total

AMPRI 0 4 11 8 12 6 41

CBRI 0 1 11 20 17 9 58

CCMB 9 15 19 14 20 17 94

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NML 14 31 25 24 24 19 137

NPL 15 46 31 24 36 29 181

SERC 3 23 17 14 18 10 85

URDIP 2 3 0 3 0 0 8

TOTAL 311 844 691 782 900 510 4038

Change in profile of Gr. IV Scientists from 2008 to 2012

Lab 2008 2012 AMPRI 48 41 CBRI 70 58 CCMB 99 94 … … … NML 144 137 NPL 201 181 SERC 87 85 URDIP − 8 TOTAL 4384 4038

Change in HR footprint relative to CSIR total footprint

Lab 2008 2012 Δη

η=X/S η=X/S AMPRI 0.93 0.75 0.18 CBRI 0.83 0.66 0.17 CCMB 0.91 0.95 0.04 … … … … NML 0.93 0.97 0.05 NPL 0.86 0.96 0.11 SERC 0.96 0.93 0.03 TOTAL 1.00 1.00 0.00

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Performance Evaluation

Performance Ranking of CSIR Laboratories (Paul Ratnasamy’s 4P approach at NCL) A Lab score is assigned to each laboratory, using as parameters, - the performances on basic research (research publications), - applied research (patents, both Indian and foreign), - academic research (number of PhDs produced) and - contract research as well as strategic and societal contributions (ECF, i.e. external cash flow used as a proxy). Lab scores assigned in a rational manner using quantitative data for four parameters– publications (papers), patents, PhDs and ECF.

Methodology For each category (i.e. publications, patents, PhDs or ECF), the performance scores over a trailing period of three years is averaged and divided by the number of scientists in the laboratory, to get a score that is rationalised for the size of the laboratory. Thus from all four categories, each lab will be assigned four scores. These can be represented by a four dimensional vector P = Ai + Bj +Ck +Dl (1) in an imagined four dimensional space spanned by the unit vectors i, j, k and l corresponding to the four categories, namely Publications, Patents, PhDs and ECF. The magnitudes A, B, C and D are the performance values before normalization with respect to the mean.

These can be processed to get a single composite score in the following way. For each category, the scores are normalised with respect to the corresponding mean, e.g. a = A/Am. Then each Lab has a performance vector given by: p = ai + bj +ck +dl (2) in the same four dimensional. The magnitudes a, b, c and d are the performance values after normalization with respect to the mean. The exergy of performance is then defined as the scalar dot product X = p · p. (3)

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NIIST 75 76.09 2.76 0.22 9.34 6.08 2.66 2.19 1.09 50.07 IICT 209 58.14 2.46 0.36 15.02 4.65 2.37 3.62 1.75 43.37 NCL 234 49.45 1.74 0.30 8.07 3.95 1.68 3.03 0.94 28.50 CSMCRI 92 25.62 4.96 0.07 7.17 2.05 4.80 0.73 0.84 28.43 IICB 77 27.49 1.65 0.45 5.22 2.20 1.59 4.54 0.61 28.31 IGIB 49 30.99 2.86 0.24 18.07 2.48 2.76 2.47 2.11 24.28 CCMB 99 34.21 1.01 0.21 23.34 2.73 0.98 2.07 2.72 20.11 IMT 50 34.83 2.60 0.19 12.49 2.78 2.51 1.95 1.46 19.97 IHBT 46 4.14 2.90 0.15 8.74 0.33 2.80 1.53 1.02 11.34 CDRI 151 15.57 1.24 0.25 9.79 1.24 1.19 2.56 1.14 10.82 IITR 77 25.16 0.09 0.18 7.88 2.01 0.08 1.79 0.92 8.09 NBRI 98 8.33 0.48 0.23 4.25 0.67 0.46 2.30 0.50 6.18 IIIM 65 4.50 1.85 0.09 10.21 0.36 1.78 0.88 1.19 5.50 IIP 78 3.45 1.58 0.03 13.96 0.28 1.53 0.30 1.63 5.15 NIO 171 3.70 0.27 0.05 18.57 0.30 0.26 0.55 2.16 5.14 NGRI 167 2.74 0.70 0.05 17.19 0.22 0.68 0.52 2.00 4.79 CLRI 119 15.97 0.95 0.13 4.16 1.28 0.92 1.33 0.48 4.47 CFTRI 162 10.96 1.48 0.11 2.92 0.88 1.43 1.14 0.34 4.23 NEERI 113 4.27 0.35 0.02 16.67 0.34 0.34 0.24 1.94 4.07 CIMFR 188 0.12 0.35 0.01 16.38 0.01 0.34 0.05 1.91 3.77 NEIST 92 6.80 0.91 0.11 7.68 0.54 0.88 1.13 0.89 3.14 NML 144 3.67 0.86 0.03 7.00 0.29 0.83 0.33 0.82 1.54 IMMT 101 3.77 0.73 0.05 7.19 0.30 0.70 0.47 0.84 1.50 NPL 201 6.84 0.86 0.03 5.45 0.55 0.83 0.30 0.64 1.49 NAL 387 0.80 0.14 0.00 9.90 0.06 0.13 0.03 1.15 1.35 CGCRI 113 6.55 0.53 0.01 7.32 0.52 0.51 0.15 0.85 1.29 CRRI 110 0.11 0.00 0.00 9.50 0.01 0.00 0.00 1.11 1.23 CECRI 131 6.83 0.64 0.06 2.89 0.55 0.61 0.62 0.34 1.17 AMPRI 48 2.91 0.49 0.07 3.22 0.23 0.47 0.70 0.38 0.91 CIMAP 100 1.79 0.73 0.05 2.48 0.14 0.71 0.54 0.29 0.89 SERC 87 0.11 0.00 0.02 7.12 0.01 0.00 0.19 0.83 0.73 CSIO 95 0.37 0.18 0.03 5.92 0.03 0.17 0.32 0.69 0.61 CEERI 93 0.97 0.14 0.01 6.34 0.08 0.14 0.07 0.74 0.58 CBRI 70 2.46 0.19 0.02 5.61 0.20 0.18 0.19 0.65 0.54 CMMACS 26 6.59 0.00 0.00 4.05 0.53 0.00 0.00 0.47 0.50 CMERI 101 0.99 0.50 0.01 4.01 0.08 0.48 0.10 0.47 0.46 NISTADS 43 0.17 0.00 0.01 1.35 0.01 0.00 0.08 0.16 0.03 NISCAIR 66 0.09 0.00 0.00 1.37 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.16 0.03 4384 12.51 1.03 0.10 8.58 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.00 A=Energy of publications per capita per year as of 2008

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CMMACS 27 30 10.00 CMERI 116 130 10.77 IHBT 48 55 12.73 SERC 85 101 15.84 CGCRI 99 121 18.18 CSMCRI 90 111 18.92 NML 137 169 18.93 CCMB 94 116 18.97 NEIST 89 110 19.09 NAL 370 460 19.57 CIMAP 92 115 20.00 NIO 155 200 22.50 IICT 192 250 23.20 CLRI 116 153 24.18 CDRI 148 200 26.00 AMPRI 41 56 26.79 NBRI 82 112 26.79 IMMT 91 125 27.20 NPL 181 254 28.74 NGRI 140 200 30.00 IMT 52 75 30.67 CECRI 120 181 33.70 IGIB 49 75 34.67 NIIST 65 100 35.00 CSIR HQ 76 118 35.59 CSIO 85 135 37.04 CRRI 88 140 37.14 CFTRI 153 251 39.04 CIMFR 161 265 39.25 NEERI 99 165 40.00 NCL 194 325 40.31 IITR 64 110 41.82 CEERI 99 180 45.00

NISTADS 30 55 45.45 IIIM 57 110 48.18 IIP 69 135 48.89 IICB 64 126 49.21

NISCAIR 54 130 58.46 CBRI 58 151 61.59 URDIP 8 TOTAL 4038 5895 31.50 GAP 1857 31.50

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