Contract R & D Projects, as Sponsored, Collaborative and Grant-in-Aid Projects are undertaken by the Laboratory with funding from External Agencies. Before submission of the project proposals to the outside agencies they are evaluated by the Group based on various criteria and conditions. Monitoring and developing of complete database for report generation on projects are done and project files are created and maintained. Similarly Major Laboratory Projects and other In-house Projects funded by CSIR & NPL undertaken in NPL are also monitored. Fund allocation and processing of indents is an important activity. The report on completed projects and refund of unspent balance to the funding agencies at the end of project are made by the group.

PME prepares Annual Plan and Five Year Plan for NPL. It organizes Research Council meetings and coordinates with Management Council meetings organized by administration. Time to time PME disseminates information on projects, performance reports and ECF reports to CSIR. PME is also involved in monitoring of Networking Projects. PME developed manpower data and maintains staff positions and disseminates the information to various authorities. The group also maintains and regulates the appointments of project staff under various externally funded projects.

PME has the additional responsibility of getting feed back on degree of customer satisfaction in a prescribed format from funding agencies who are funding the different contract research projects in NPL. The process is done at the end of each project. This function has been initiated by CSIR under the supervision of Customer Satisfaction Evaluation Unit (CSEU) at CSIR Headquarter, Rafi Marg, New Delhi – 110 001. The feed-back received from the funding agencies are sent to CSEU, CSIR.

Publication of Annual Report is another important activity of PME. On receiving inputs from various DUs’, DPs’ & other concerned groups, Text and Appendices of Annual Report are compiled, corrected and published in the form of annual Report each year.