[October 2025]
Finding the right funding opportunity can be challenging, especially with so many sources spread across different platforms. To make the process easier, we’ve curated a carefully selected listing of grant opportunities available across India. This collection includes government schemes, private sector funding and grants that are currently open to Indian applicants.
Fellowship for Children’s Literature in Kannada (India)
Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The Azim Premji University invites emerging and experienced writers to share their creations for children in Kannada through stories, poems, plays, biographies, travelogues, or novels…[more]
Apply for the Inlaks-Asia Art Archive Art Grant Program (India)
Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation has announced the Inlaks–Asia Art Archive Art Grant Program, which encourages artists to develop methods of art-making that integrate research, collaboration, workshops, and formal experimentation while exploring the imaginations, architectures, sensoria, and interfaces of the archive…[more]
Call for Applications: iCreate Drone Challenge 2025 (India)
Deadline: 15-Nov-2025
The iCreate Drone Challenge 2025 is a national initiative designed to unleash the innovative potential of India’s brightest minds in drone technology, aiming to identify, nurture, and accelerate groundbreaking drone innovations that push the boundaries of performance, efficiency, and affordability while also fostering component indigenisation…[more]
Nominations open for ISGF Innovation Awards 2026 (India)
Deadline: 28-Dec-2025
The India Smart Grid Forum Innovation Awards 2026 aim to celebrate and recognize organizations, projects, products, and personalities that have set new benchmarks in Electricity, Gas, Water, and E-Mobility domains…[more]
Arts-Integrated National School Projects for Government-aided and Nonprofit Schools in India
Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) has announced a new request for proposals inviting government-aided and nonprofit schools across India to design and implement arts-integrated educational projects…[more]
Request for Proposals: iDEX Open Innovation Challenge (India)
Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
The iDEX Open Challenge is an initiative by iDEX – DIO launched to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in India’s defence and aerospace sectors by inviting proposals that leverage advanced technology solutions from Indian startups, individual innovators, and MSMEs through a submission process on the iDEX portal…[more]
3rd Call for Proposals: BIRAC’s E-Yuva Fellows (India)
Deadline: 15-Nov-2025
The E-YUVA Scheme provides support to promote a culture of translational research and need-oriented (societal or industry) entrepreneurial innovation…[more]
Call for Proposals: Skill Development Programs in India
Deadline: 15-Nov-2025
The iHub‑Data at IIIT Hyderabad, under India’s National Mission for Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems, has issued a call for proposals exclusively for members of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category…[more]
Yashwantrao Chavan State Level Youth Award (India)
Deadline: 30-Oct-2025
Applications are now open for the Yashwantrao Chavan State Level Youth Award to implement innovative activities for the youth…[more]
Inviting Ideas for Anganwadi Centre of the Future – India
Deadline: 26-Oct-2025
The Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with MyGov proposes to launch a national online competition inviting people from all walks of life to contribute innovative, practical and culturally-rooted suggestions that can help shape the next generation of Anganwadi Centres and strengthen their role as engines of grassroots transformation…[more]
Banbasa Land Port Design Competition 2025 (India)
Deadline: 17-Nov-2025
The Land Port Authority of India and Council of Architecture (LPAI), in collaboration with MyGov India invites architects, architectural students and firms to envision the Banbasa Land Port set within a rich forest landscape, an eco-sensitive zone…[more]
Submit Applications for Rubber Innovation Challenge – India
Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry invites individuals and startups to participate in an innovation challenge to make India’s rubber plantations vibrant with opportunities to win cash prizes and incubation support…[more]
Apply Now: 4th Sri Sri Awards for Education 2026 (India)
Deadline: 01-Nov-2025
The Sri Sri Awards provide a distinguished platform to recognize and honor outstanding contributions in the field of education…[more]
Request for Proposals: Small Research Grants Program (India)
Deadline: 31-Oct-2025
The AMA Endowment for Manipur Studies invites proposals for small research grants that advance knowledge, preservation, and public understanding of the people and Manipur at large…[more]
Reel Contest for Vikaspedia User Stories – India
Deadline: 04-Feb-2026
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in collaboration with MyGov invites citizens to participate in the Reel Contest on The Vikaspedia User Journey: What’s Your Story?…[more]
Entries open for NIF Translation Fellowships in India (Round 3)
Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
The New India Foundation is inviting applications for its NIF Translation Fellowships, aimed at promoting scholarship on Independent India while making important Indian-language texts accessible to a broader English-speaking audience…[more]
Request for Proposals: Workshops/Residencies (Arts Practice) – India
Deadline: Ongoing
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for the Workshops/Residencies under its Arts Practice programme…[more]
Request for Applications: International Travel Scheme (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
The Anusandhan National Research Foundation is requesting applications for its International Travel Support Scheme to provide financial assistance to Indian researchers for presenting a research paper in an international scientific event held abroad…[more]
Expressions of Interest: AIKosh Partners for Dataset Contributions (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
IndiaAI, an Independent Business Division (IBD) under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), is inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from nongovernment entities across all sectors to contribute their non-personal, anonymized, and India-specific datasets to AIKosh. AIKosh is IndiaAI’s flagship platform designed to democratize access to high-quality datasets, fostering innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and development…[more]
Education Future International Scholarship Program (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
Submissions are now open for Education Future International Scholarship, a unique scholarship fund that has been created by the scholarship winners worldwide…[more]
