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What You Get · Free

Every Monday,
7 AM IST.

Curated tight. Easy to read in 3 minutes. Zero filler.

Curated grant calls

Every open call across DBT, DST, ICMR, ANRF, CSIR, BIRAC, UGC, AYUSH, and state agencies.

Pre-filtered by urgency

You won't miss the ones closing this week. Closing-soon calls get pinned to the top.

Direct portal links

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Plain-English commentary

What's worth applying to, what's a long shot - written by someone who has actually submitted proposals.

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Filtered to your field

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Monthly budget template pack

DBT, ICMR, ANRF formats with current JRF/SRF rates and overhead calculations already done for you.

Quarterly deep-dive

"State of Indian Research Funding" - what's getting funded, what's not, what to pitch next quarter.

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You get an actual human who has written a ₹4.61 Cr DBT proposal. Not a chatbot.

~₹25/month. Less than one filter coffee. One extra week of awareness on a grant call pays for a decade of subscriptions.

Why This Exists

I'm Argajit. I got tired of
missing grant calls.

I'm a second-year PhD candidate in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics at Tripura University, Northeast India. Last year I co-wrote a ₹4.61 Cr DBT BIO-GRID proposal through the eProMIS portal.

The hardest part was never the science. It was knowing which calls were even open, what the current budget norms were, and whether we were eligible.

Colleagues across Indian universities routinely miss grant calls they would have won - not because they didn't qualify, but because the information is scattered across 15+ government websites that nobody has time to check weekly.

GrantSetu Weekly is the email I wish existed two years ago.

Who This Is For

Built for Indian
researchers.

  • Assistant and Associate Professors applying to ANRF, DBT, ICMR, DST.
  • PostDocs trying to land their first independent grant.
  • Senior PhD students planning the fellowship-to-faculty transition.
  • Sponsored Research Cells wanting a single source of truth.

Who This Is NOT For

Not an
everyone tool.

  • International researchers applying to non-Indian agencies.
  • People looking for NIH, NSF, or ERC grants.
  • Anyone who wants a 50-page daily digest.
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is this AI-generated?

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