Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map
 
FAQ
The Indian Science, Technology, and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM) is an interactive web portal designed to accelerate scientific progress in India. This initiative, conceived and supported by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, creates a centralized platform for sharing publicly funded R&D equipment and facilities across various institutions throughout the country.
The I-STEM Web Portal isavailable to the researchers from India and abroad.
For searching the equipment registration is not mandatory. But for booking the equipment one should be registered on the portal.
Yes, Custodian is meant to provide services to the needy researchers. But for own purpose and make a record of usage, custodian must register as public user to use their own equipment.
Yes. The facilities will be available on pay and use basis. The charges will be the prerogative of individual institution to decide it.
Please visit the help section on the portal after logged in to the portal. There is an option to report the grievances also. You may get support from nodal centre using toll free number.
It depends on concerned person’s availability and type of grievance faced. Usually it should not take more than a week.
You may do it by selecting the option 'other' in the reason list.
It may be because of scheduled maintenance in that period.
Yes, you may cancel if the slot is not allocated and you have not paid for it. If slot is allocated and payment is done, then please contact operator/technologist well in advance i.e. at least 48 hrs before (on working days). The payment made to the Institution is non-refundable which may be reuse for other bookings, in case of breakdown of equipment or cancellation due to unavoidable circumstances.
FBR is Facility Booking Record generated once booking is made on any equipment. The unique 10-digits FBR number will be assigned each time to the user for record purpose. This may be used to check the current status of booking request even without login to the I-STEM portal.
Yes, Invoice and receipt for online payment will be made available for each request. It may be downloaded any time from the portal after the login.
Once the user has got approval for COMSOL usage, server details are sent to them. If a user is unable to connect to the license server, it would usually issue with Firewall at the institution or proxy server settings. We would suggest trying to connect using mobile data when you face such an issue, if it doesn't work even on Mobile data, then report to the I-STEM Team. If it works on mobile data but not on LAN then the user has to contact their network support team to allow our server IP and port number through the proxy and firewall, whichever applicable.
THE VISION
THE MISSION
ABOUT I-STEM
It has always been the basic tenet of the Government of India, in generously funding R&D efforts at academic institutions over the years, that facilities established through such support be made available to those needing them and qualified to make use of them for their own research work
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However, this was never easy or straightforward for, among other reasons, there was no ready source of information of what facility was available and where. Thanks to the Web, it is much easier today to have a national and regional “inventory of resources”, so as to match users with the resources they need, and to do all this in an efficient and transparent manner.

This can lead to a leap in R&D productivity and greatly enhance the effectiveness of public investment. This is the motivation behind I-STEM.
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