Dear Sridhar,
An excellent mandate proposal, especially your proposed modification:
The authors of the scholarly literature produced from the research
funded by the ICAR at either ICAR establishments or elsewhere in
the NARS are required to deposit final version of the author's
peer-reviewed
Excellent work, Sridhar.
I would strongly recommend, however, removal of reference to the CC-BY
license. This is NOT in the best interests of Indian scholars or
Indian research funders. This gives blanket commercial rights to
anyone, anywhere downstream, with absolutely no obligation for
