Twenty copies of the proposals for financial support from the Aeronautics R&D Board for setting up of facilities should be submitted by the institutions concerned in the same format as for a project. The proposal must clearly bring out an appreciation of how the setting up of facilities asked for would lead to better Aeronautical R&D / training and also how lack of such facility has handicapped the programmes within the country or programmes of the institutions together with a certificate that funds for taking up such a scheme can not be provided from their own budget or other sources. This appraisal should be in a narrative form and should be comprehensive enough to enable the security of the proposal to be made and the need for setting up of facility appreciated.

Such proposals will be submitted to the Secretariat of Aeronautics R&D Board (Directorate of Aeronautics, Ministry of Defence (R&D), B Wing, Sena Bhawan New Delhi - 11). The Secretariat would carry out a scrutiny of the proposal and if the proposal is complete in all respects it would be forwarded to the specialist panel concerned, if such a panel can be identified on the basis of the proposal. The further processing of the proposal would be done in the same manner as for projects. If the proposal is recommended by the panel and other scrutinizing committees if any, financial sanction would be issued by the Secretary, Aero R&D Board/O i/c AR&DB after obtaining approval of the appropriate authority.

In case, however, the proposal for the facilities involves more than one discipline and no single panel can be identified for scrutiny of the project, the Secretary of the Aeronautics R&D Board will form an ad-hoc committee of at least 4 specialists including the coordinators / members of the different panels for scrutiny and recommendations. For all practical purposes this ad-hoc committee will be considered as a specialist panel and the rest of the processing of the proposal for sanction would follow the same procedure as for projects. For monitoring the progress of implementations of the proposal based on the sanction issued by Aeronautics R&D Board, Secretary, Aeronautics R&D Board may nominate a monitor who would report the progress to him. The annual review of the progress would be carried out by the same ad-hoc committee. If however, the membership cannot be the same due to various reasons, Secretary, Aeronautics R&D Board may nominate other appropriate specialists for the committee.