the remaining one third of this funding was allocated to universities and applied sectoral science and research institutes through the mes and organizations of central ministries and agencies eg scientific research institutes under the agrarian university table universities and heis have additional own funds for science extrabudgetary funds the state budget for rd currently amounts to around of gdp which is low compared to peer economies and means there should be a long term policy aspiration to increase rd expenditure as a share of gdp as per sdg indicator an expert council was in charge of the project evaluations