Anusandhan National Research Foundation Invites Application for Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant 2025, The (ANRF), established under the ANRF Act 2023, aims to foster a strong culture of research and innovation across India. Guided by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, who serves as the President of its Governing Board, ANRF is launching several new initiatives to strengthen India’s research ecosystem and accelerate scientific progress through diverse programs and reforms that enhance the ease of doing research.
Recognizing the crucial role of early career researchers in driving innovation and excellence, ANRF acknowledges their potential to bring fresh perspectives, advanced skills, and breakthrough ideas that expand the frontiers of knowledge. Their contributions are pivotal in helping India emerge as a global leader in science and technology.
To support and empower these emerging researchers, ANRF is introducing the Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant — a program designed to help them establish their research careers in new institutions. This initiative offers a flexible budget and progressive measures aimed at creating an enabling environment for conducting high-quality research with greater ease and independence.
Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.
Last Date of Submission: 12th November 2025
Benefits
(Anusandhan National Research Foundation Invites Application for Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant 2025)
Research grant up to Rs. 60 lakh plus overheads for a period of three years.
The measures for ease of doing research include flexibility to utilize resources under recurring head; flexibility in manpower recruitment; enhanced travel, contingency and overhead charges; and support for expenses related to open access publications and patent filing charges.
International travel for project related activities is also permitted.
Maximum of 700 grants would be awarded per year across all subject areas.
Eligibility Criteria
(Anusandhan National Research Foundation Invites Application for Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant 2025)
The applicant should be an Indian citizen. PIO/OCI working as regular employees in any of the public funded and recognized R&D laboratories/institutions in India are eligible to apply as PI in collaboration with an Indian Co-PI, provided they fulfill the eligibility criteria notified by ANRF (ANRF Funding Guidelines for PIO/OCI) The applicant should hold a PhD degree in Science or Engineering or MD/MS/ MDS/MVSc degree.
The applicant must hold a regular academic/research position in a recognized academic institution, national laboratories or any other recognized R&D institution.
The applicant is eligible to apply within two years of joining the institution.
The upper age limit for PM ECRG would be 42 years, with a relaxation of three years for SC/ST/OBC/Physically challenged and women candidates.
Research Associates, Post doctoral Fellows, Ad-hoc faculties, Guest faculties, Visiting Scientists, Consultants, Project Fellows and faculty members whose contract is renewed every year are not eligible under PM ECRG. In respect of cases that are not mentioned above, ANRF reserves the right to determine the eligibility.
Co-PIs are not allowed except in the case of PIO/OCI.
The applicant should not have received YSS, ECR, SRG, CRG (erstwhile EMR), EMEQ or any other project grant of the erstwhile SERB or ANRF.
How to apply?
For online submission of the application the following points may be noted:
Applicants should first register in the ANRF online portal,www.anrfonline.in click here to register
After log-in, applicants are required to fill in all the mandatory fields under User Profile section, which includes Bio-data, Photo, Institute address, etc.
Some of the details of a proposal like Project Title (max 500 characters), Project summary (max 3000 characters), Keywords (max 6), Objectives of the project (max 1500 characters), Expected output and outcome of the proposal (max 1500 characters), Budget (Research Personnel, Consumables, Travel, Equipment, Contingency, Overheads ) have to be entered at the time of proposal submission.
Other relevant information of the proposal has to be uploaded as a single PDF file, not more than 10 MB, as a Technical Document (TD).Download Template
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