The Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor has allocated budget to fund research projects to be undertaken by the faculty pursuing research in various areas. The aim of the scheme is to strengthen the research activity especially among the young faculty members which will act as a catalyst for them to apply to the various funding agencies for major grants.

Savitribai Phule Pune University launched an e-service Sanshodhan Online for students and teachers on July 20, called Sanshodhan Online to enable online filing of research proposals for the year 2008-09.

Dr. V. B. Gaikwad has been appointed as Director of Research

This e-service will also help to create updated electronic data on various research projects in progress and publications in international and national journals.

Savitribai Phule Pune University has initiated many Innovative Academic Programmes in recent past. Since 2006, the SPPU introduced the schema e to encourage college and varsity-level research projects by teachers and students. The university provides Rs 50,000 to Rs 3 lakh for each project, depending upon the proposal. Close to 5,000 teachers and students from the 50-odd SPPU departments, 474 colleges and some 250 recognized institutions directly or indirectly benefit from the scheme.