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Govt plans monthly fellowship of Rs70,000 for IIT, IISc researchers

The government will provide Rs70,000 as monthly fellowship to those researchers doing their PhDs in IITs or IISc, said an official

A file photo of IIT Kharagpur. The monthly fellowship will be given for a period of five years, said an official. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/MintPremium
A file photo of IIT Kharagpur. The monthly fellowship will be given for a period of five years, said an official. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Kolkata: The Centre will provide Rs70,000 as monthly fellowship to those researchers doing their PhDs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) or Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Union higher education secretary Kewal Kumar Sharma has said.

Presently researcher-students get Rs25,000 as monthly scholarship at IITs. “As part of the research fellowship scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we wish the meritorious students who are being forced to leave the country for purely financial reasons stay within the country.

“We will provide 2,000 such monthly fellowships across the IIT system and IISc Bengaluru," Sharma said at the 67th Foundation Day of IIT Kharagpur at its Kharagpur campus in West Midnapore district on Friday. It will be given for a period of five years, he said. This will also enable meritorious researchers, keen to further their research but forced to opt for corporate jobs for higher pay, to pursue their goal, he said.

However, the scholarship recipients can’t do any other job, the senior official said. “The cabinet nod for the proposal should come soon. We are hopeful to start it from the next session," he said. IIT-KGP director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti called it a good proposal.

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Published: 19 Aug 2017, 05:13 PM IST
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