Saturday, August 27, 2011

UGC - Post Doctoral Fellowship for SC/ST

University Grants Commission(UGC)

UGC - Post Doctoral Fellowship for SC/ST

The University Grants Commission(UGC) has invited applications for the award of 100 fellowships under the scheme of “Post Doctoral Fellowship for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Candidates” for the year 2010-2011.

The objective of the scheme is to provide an opportunity to unemployed SC/ST candidates to undertake advance studies and research in Science, Engineering & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences in Indian universities/institutions/colleges on full time basis.

ELIGIBILITY:
i) The candidate must have a doctorate degree in the relevant subject preferably with published research work to their credit.
ii) The upper age limit for male applicants is 50 years as on 1st July of the year of application, and 55 years in the case of female candidates. In exceptional cases, the age may be relaxed.

NATURE OF ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE UNDER THE SCHEME:
The financial assistance available under the scheme is as follows:

Fellowship @Rs.16,000-p.m. fixed for 2 years
Contingency A @Rs.30000/-p.a. for 2 years
Departmental Assistance 10% of Post Doctoral Fellowship to the host institution
Escorts/Reader assistance @ Rs. 2000/- p.m. (fixed) in cases of physically disabled & blind candidates

HRA : Post Doctoral Fellowship provided with accommodation in hostel recognized/ maintained by the institutions may be reimbursed the hostel fee, excluding mess, electricity, water charges, etc. A certificate to this effect is to be furnished through the Registrar/Director/Principal. If Post Doctoral Fellow makes his/her own arrangements of accommodation, he/she may be entitled to draw HRA as per categorization of the cities by the Government of India. The Post Doctoral Fellow will submit a certificate for this purpose to the UGC for claiming HRA through the concerned University/Institution/College.

APPLICATIONS:
The applications in the prescribed format may be submitted only through online mode latest by 25th September, 2011(non-extendable) by logging in website www.ugc.ac.in/pdfss (link: http://117.239.33.193/pdfss/registration.aspx )

For guidelines and other details, logon to the link: http://117.239.33.193/pdfss/Downloads/PDFSS.pdf

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