As part of the academic programme of AcSIR, students are required to undertake a project for 6-8 weeks, related to rural areas and the theme of the project should be related to the CSIR-800 programme. The aim of the project is to interact with people from rural areas, understand their problems and suggest ways for improvements in the areas of energy, education, environment, agriculture, health, food, water, etc. In addition, two project proposals to be prepared by selecting topics of high relevance and novelty that have a state-of-the art review, methodologies, recommendations etc. One of the proposals can be related to a research topic leading to the PhD and the second proposal should be in related areas. Students must pass a comprehensive examination designed to test the overall comprehension of the student in various subjects.