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The article focuses on the annual budget plan of the Indian government to fund research on renewable energy, science and technology, and biotechnology. Topics discussed include the budgetary estimates for research grants in science by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), the plan to increase the funding for the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and the comment of chemistry professor Krishna N. Ganesh on the decline in budgetary allocations for science and biotechnology.

The article reports on the increase in scientific research funding for the Ministry of Science & Technology in India, according to the country's budget for 2017-2018. Details about the budget allocation for several departments of the Ministry of Science & Technology are mentioned, including the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology, and the Department of Health Research.