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13 FINANCE

AERB receives funds from Government of India important regulatory activities.
(GoI) for meeting its expenditure. AERB has full powers
to operate its budget, which it prepares and submits for 13.3 GRANTS TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
approval.
AERB provides grants to academic institutions for
13.1 ANNUAL BUDGET OF AERB AND ITS research projects to carry out safety research in the areas
UTILISATION of AERB interest. Details of CSRP projects are provided
in section 7.10 of this report. The research outcome

Annual expenditure is used for framing new regulations, safety review and
during the period analysis etc.
was Rs. 99.61 crores
comprising Rs. 25.74 13.4 FUND UTILISATION ON PUBLIC
crores under Capital OUTREACH PROGRAMMES
Budget, Rs. 71.94
crores under Revenue In order to inform the public on various safety
Budget and Rs.1.93 related issues, to address their concern and to sensitise
crores towards Grant- the users on regulatory requirements, AERB conducted
in-Aid Scheme. Expenditure includes salary, office awareness programmes for users and public at various
expenses, travel, public outreach programmes, services places. During the year AERB funds were utilised on
of experts, Grant-in-aid towards financial assistance for following activities.
projects of AERB interest to academic institutes and for
seminars/ conferences etc.

Expenditure for Capital is mainly towards
construction of Niyamak Bhavan-C at HQ, salary of
new recruits under Capital Budget, establishment of
Regional Regulatory Centres (RRC), R&D activities
and IT related activities. Refurbishing and upgradation
activities of existing office buildings at HQ is nearing
completion. Construction activities are in progress for
ERRC at Kolkata.
(i) Awareness programme on ‘Radiation Safety in the
13.2 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND IT use of Radiation Source for Societal Benefits’ at
INFRASTRUCTURE Madurai.
(ii) Awareness programme on ‘Safety in Diagnostic
Funds were utilised for procurement of software Radiology’ at Kolkata.
for analysis work at AERB HQ and at SRI Kalpakkam,
establishing experimental facilities at SRI for R&D (iii) Awareness programme on ‘Responsibilities of
activities and procurement of radiation protection Suppliers in Nucleonic Gauges’ and ‘Well logging
instruments etc. facilities’ at Mumbai.

Funds were also utilised to improve internal IT (iv) Displayed exhibits in journalists workshop organised
infrastructure and implementation of continuous by DAE, to spread awareness on societal applications
upgradiation/improvement plan for e-LORA covering of radiation.

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