@Ravi Hasija That is a

suspended

function, not a co-routine, suspended functions need to be called from within a co-routine. There are a few different ways to do that. Here is a simple example

val job = launch(CommonPool) { 
    val result = scanProjects(args....)
    println("$result")
}
println("The result: ")
job.join() // join is a blocking call...