NOTIFICATION

    Guidelines for JRF to SRF and issues related to monthly scholarship for M.Tech. (by Research)/M.Tech./I-Ph.D./Ph.D. Scholars

On the recommendations of the Board of Academics (BoA), the Senate in its 37th meeting held on 7th October, 2022, vide item No. 37.4 discussed the proposal of Guidelines for JRF to SRF and issues related to monthly scholarship for M.Tech. (by Research)/M.Tech./I-Ph.D./Ph.D. Scholars.  After detailed deliberation, the Senate resolved to approve the proposal, as placed below:

• On the recommendation of DC/APC, monthly fellowship may be continued till the completion of viva-voce or maximum period of 5 yrs (for Ph.D.), 6 yrs (i-PhD) and 3 yrs (M.Tech.(R)) students (whichever is earliest).

• If a PhD/I-PhD student has completed the comprehensive exam with satisfactory grade or above, then the student will be promoted to SRF (on the basis of satisfactory performance in the comprehensive examination) with effect from the day he/she completed 2 years (for PhD students) and 3 years (for i-PhD students) from date of registration.

• The monthly scholarship of PhD/i-PhD/M.Tech. students (All categories of full time) will be released based on the attendance record of the student by of every month. Therefore, students must mark the attendance on all working days. Based on the absent of the student in a month, commensurate amount from the monthly fellowship will be deducted.  If a thesis supervisor or TA supervisor is not satisfied with the performance of the student in any month, he/she must explicitly communicate his/her recommendation for unsatisfactory performance to academic section by the end of the month, otherwise it will be considered satisfactory by default.  School office will compile the data of attendance and communicate to academic section every month.  

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All M.Tech/M.Tech(R)/I-Ph.D./Ph.D. scholars