Varanasi: In a significant move to boost quality research, the Banaras Hindu University administration has decided to bear the cost of patent and intellectual property right (IPR) for new research by students as well as teachers.
The university has made a panel of eight experts of different fields for this purpose.
BHU spokesperson Rajesh Singh said, “In view of the importance of academic research, the university has decided to bear the expenses of patents.
The researchers can get registered for their patents of inventions through the panel of experts set up for this purpose.
The expenses of this process will be borne by the university.” According to the university notification, the expert panel includes Dr.
Vishal Tripathi of Noida (food technology), Sudarshan Kumar Bansal from New Delhi and Joshita Dawar Khemani from Kolkata (mechanical, electrical, electronics, computer science, pharmacy, chemistry and biotechnology), Anshul Sunil Saurashtri from Mumbai (biochemistry), Priyanka Dubey from Noida (chemistry and life sciences), Anupam Trivedi from Gurugram (biotechnology, bioscience and environmental sciences), Madhulata Kumari from New Delhi (information technology) and Dr.
Ramesh Kumar Mehata from Gurugram (chemistry).
All payments for the patents will be done through the IPR Cell and Legal Cell of the university.