Prime Minister's Research Fellowship Scheme in India

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Prime Minister's Research Fellowship Scheme in India

Category :
Research Fellowship
Research Areas :
Engineering
Fellowship Provided by :
Ministry of Human resource Development, Government of India
Provided to :
Indian students for pursuing full-time Doctoral Studies (PhD) in IITs and IISc

Ministry of Human resource Development, Government of India provides The Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) scheme for pursuing full-time Doctoral Studies (PhD) in IITs and IISc

The Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to doctoral (PhD) programs of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for carrying out research in cutting-edge science and technology domains, with focus on national priorities.

Research Areas

For the details about subject areast visit website https://pmrf.in/index.php/guidelines/broad-disciplines-nodal-institutes

Admission under the PMRF will be made in 18 broad disciplines.

For each broad discipline one IIT or IISc will coordinate the admission process (review applications, shortlist applicants, constitute selection committees and hold final selections) and will be referred to as the Nodal Institute for that broad discipline.

Provisions

Applicants who fulfill the eligibility criteria, and are finally selected through a selection process, will be offered admission to PhD program in one of IITs/IISc with a fellowship of Rs.70,000/- per month for the first two years, Rs.75,000/- per month for the 3rd year, and Rs.80,000/- per month in the 4th and 5th years. Apart from this, each Fellow would be eligible for a research grant of Rs. 2 lakhs per year (total Rs. 10 lakh)

The tenure of fellowship will be four years for students from integrated courses and five years for B. Tech. students.

Industry participation in the PMRF programme would be explored through CSR funding so as to enable industry to sponsor maximum number of fellows.

Eligibility Criteria :

The applicants for the PMRF

Should be Citizens of India
Should have completed or be pursuing the final year of four (or five) year undergraduate or five year integrated M.Tech or five year integrated M.Sc. or five year undergraduate-postgraduate dual degree programs in Science and Technology streams from IISc/IITs/NITs/IISERs and centrally funded IIITs;
Should have secured at least CGPA/CPI of 8.0 (in scale of 10.0). For applicants in five year integrated or dual degree programs if separate CGPAs/CPIs are awarded for UG and PG parts of the program then the CGPA/CPI of UG part (first four year) will be considered.
Should have completed the required academic qualification in the last five years.
Merely satisfying the eligibility requirement does not guarantee admission. Final selection for admission of applicants will be done following a rigorous selection process.
The candidate should have a very good command of English language. Therefore, the application should be written in English.

Selection:

The selection process for the PMRF will be a rigorous two stage process with screening by the Reviewers and final selection by the Selection Committee for each broad discipline to ensure selection of the best talent.

An applicant may apply for more than one combination of broad discipline and institute. An applicant will be required to provide preferences in case the applicant wishes to apply for more than one combination of discipline and institute.

The shortlisting and selection will be done in the following manner:

Each Nodal Institute (NI) will have a team of experts who will assess the applications and prepare a shortlist of applicants for written test and/or interview at the Nodal Institute.

Shortlisted applicants will be called for a written and/or interview at the Nodal Institute.

Final selection of shortlisted applicants will be made based on the performance in the interview.
Each NI would first indicate whether the candidate has to appear in the written test or not. If yes then the syllabus of the written test would be available on the website by 14th April 2019. Each NI conducting the written test can decide either to use the test results for short-listing or for assessing the knowledge of the individual candidate during interview.

How to apply

Candidates can apply online through website https://pmrf.in/applications/index.html

Useful Contact

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kandi, Sangareddy - 502285
Telangana, INDIA
Tel.: 040 23017112
E-mail: Contact Now
Website: pmrf.in/

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