Sindh Research Support Programme (SRSP) is Sindh Higher Education Commission’s major research programme for awarding competitive research grants for high-quality and prospective scientific research initiatives that demonstrate strategic significance and cast influence on local industry and society. This programme was started in 2020 with a budget of Rs. 50 million which has now swelled upto Rs. 100 million. Contributions relevant to both basic and applied research are welcomed. Purpose of SRSP is to promote scientific excellence and knowledge growth by allowing researchers to develop their own research concept and method.

This programme is designed to promote and excel research in all those areas which have a profound impact upon the lives of common men. Proposals are invited under seven different thematic areas including Applied & Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Engineering & Technology, IT & Computer Science, Agriculture, and Medical Sciences. 

More than 270 application / projects were received in 2020-21 and 412 in the year 2021-22, for award of grant. Sindh HEC has constituted a committee comprising of eminent scholars / experts, which carefully scrutinizes, examines and considers all the projects. 26 projects were approved in 2020-21 while 39 have been approved this year (2021-22). Requisite funding is provided to the researchers in installments. These researchers are the permanent PhD faculty members of public sector universities in Sindh. Presently their research is underway.

Researchers from following Public Sector Universities have received grants for their research projects:

1. University of Karachi
2. Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi
3. NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi
4. University of Sindh, Jamshoro
5. Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro
6. Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro
7. College University, Hyderabad
8. Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam
9. Mehran University, Khairpur Campus
10. Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur
11. Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering & Technology, Nawabshah
12. Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur
13. Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University, Sukkur