Fellowship for Superannuated Faculty Members is being launched with the aim to provide research opportunities to superannuated faculty members. There are 100 slots available for this fellowship and the selected candidates will be given Rs 50,000 per month as part of the fellowship and Rs 50,000 per annum as a contingency. The tenure for this fellowship will be three years or up to 70 years whichever is earlier.
Fellowship Eligibility
The candidates should be maximum of 67 years and have successfully supervised the Ph.D. dissertations of 10 full-time candidates, three of whom have received their degrees during the preceding 10 years. Also, the applicant must have handled, as Principal Investigator, at least three sponsored research projects funded by national/international agencies. In addition to this, the candidates should not hold any administrative responsibility during the tenure of the fellowship which would be from the date of superannuation.
