Separate Budget Head Status of SCTIMST Reinstated

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
The Department of Science and Technology,(DST), Government of India, has reinstated the pre-2008 budget status of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, from the financial year 2020-21.

Until the financial year 2006-07, as an Institution of National Importance established through an Act of Parliament by 1980, SCTIMST, had a separate head of account, under which, budget allotments was being made by the Government of India. This practice was stopped from the financial year 2007-08, when the budget for SCTIMST was clubbed under the head of Assistance to Autonomous Bodies under DST.

The request of the Institute to reinstate the pre-2008 status of a separate head of Account and separate appropriation as has been foreseen in section 15 of the Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Act, 1980 has now been accepted by the DST and GOI. With a separate head of account and there is scope to obtain higher allocations from GOI to meet the requirements of the Institute to fulfil its mandate and plan its future developmental activities.