NOTIFICATION

                                                                           (MS/PhD Scholar cap for each Faculty)

On the recommendations of the Board of Academics (BoA), the Senate in its 28th meeting held on 5th November, 2020, vide item no. 28.9 (i), approved the following w.r.t. increasing the number of MS/PhD Scholar cap for each Faculty:

(a) Every Faculty may have upto a maximum of 6 PhD Scholars with funding either from HTRA or from Govt. agencies like UGC/CSIR/ICMR etc. However, Schools may decide for a lower cap for their Faculty.

(b) There will be no upper cap on the number of Scholars funded by sponsored projects or self-sponsored Scholars including Part-Time/ERP categories.

(c) Funding may be switched from HTRA to project or vice versa at any time subject to the following conditions:

         (i) the candidate is otherwise eligible for such a conversion.

        (ii) the cap of maximum 6 PhD Scholars as mentioned above under point (a) is maintained.

(d) One MS (by research) scholar shall be considered as equivalent to 0.5 Ph.D Scholar for calculating the Scholar cap.

(e) Every semester, the Schools would propose their requirements for Scholars to the Dean (Academics). The Institute shall decide the overall intake every semester, based on the availability of resources.

(f) While approving the increased Scholar cap, the Senate advised that the increase in the Scholar cap may be implemented gradually so that there is no compromise on the quality of the admitted students.

(g) Apart from these changes, all the other existing norms/procedures for the allocation of research Scholars shall be continued.

(h) It was noted that the existing Scholar cap was implemented at the Institute level in 2013. The Senate opined that sometime in future, this matter should cease to be a subject for the consideration of the Senate and the matter should be delegated to the respective Schools.