  The reactor antineutrinos are used for the precise measurement of oscillation
parameters in the 3-neutrino model, and also used to investigate active-sterile
neutrino mixing sensitivity in the 3$+$1 neutrino framework. In the present
work, we study the feasibility of sterile neutrino search with the Indian
Scintillator Matrix for Reactor Anti-Neutrino (ISMRAN) experimental set-up
using electron antineutrinos ($\overline{\nu}_e$) produced from reactor as a
source. The so-called 3$+$1 scenario is considered for active-sterile neutrino
mixing, which leads to projected exclusion curves in the sterile neutrino mass
and mixing angle plane. The analysis is performed considering both the reactor
and detector related parameters. It is found that, the ISMRAN set-up can
observe the active-sterile neutrino mixing sensitivity for
$\sin^{2}2\theta_{14} \geq$ 0.064 and $\Delta m^{2}_{41}$ = 1.0 eV$^2$ at
90$\%$ confidence level for an exposure of 1 ton-year by using neutrinos
produced from the DHRUVA reactor with thermal power of 100 MW$_{th}$. It is
also observed that, there is a significant improvement of the active-sterile
neutrino mixing parameter $\sin^{2}2\theta_{14}$ to $\sim$ 0.03 at the same
$\Delta m^{2}_{41}$ by putting the ISMRAN detector set-up at a distance of 20 m
from the compact proto-type fast breeder reactor (PFBR) facility with thermal
power of 1250 MW$_{th}$.
