primeministerfellowshipscheme.in : Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme For Doctoral Research

Organisation : Confederation of Indian Industry
Name of the Fellowship : Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme For Doctoral Research
Country : India
Application Dates : Apply Anytime

Website : https://primeministerfellowshipscheme.in/

Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme For Doctoral Research :
Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) for human resource capacity building for industrial R&D has been recognised as one of the main deliverables by a Sub-committee of Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry. One of the key recommendations that emerged from the Private Sector is to design, develop and implement a Doctoral Research Scheme under PPP for enhancing trust level in academia, research outfits and industry.

A special scheme for 100 ‘Doctoral Research Fellowships’ every year was announced during the Inception Ceremony of the Indian Science Congress Association, in June 2012 in Kolkata. Vide Prime Minister’s Office ID No–3646245/2012-ES-II dated 2 November 2012; the Prime Minister’s Office approved the proposal of naming the ‘SERB-CII Doctoral Fellowship Scheme’ as Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research. Subsequently, the Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research was formally launched at the ‘AICTE-CII University-Industry Congress & 4th Global Higher Education Summit’ held in New Delhi.

Steps to fill and submit the application form:
1) Click the Download Application Form button. The form is in Excel format.
2) Fill the application form offline
3) Log on to the website and upload the completed and reviewed application form along with all required documents.

Note:
** You must refer to the Checklist for required documents.
** All the required documents and details needed to be given should be collected before filling the online application.
** Candidates can review their forms any number of times before uploading them finally. Once uploaded, however, candidates cannot make any changes to the form and the same cannot be submitted again.
** If the net connection breaks while uploading the application, then the candidate can try submitting the same link at some other time.

Apply Anytime: Application is open-ended.
A student can register anytime on the portal of PM Fellowship.

Organisers:
The Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research is a public-private partnership (PPP) between Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), which is an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

About:
This scheme is aimed at encouraging young, talented, enthusiastic and result-oriented scholars to take up industry-relevant research. Under this scheme, the full-time PhD scholars get double the money that they would otherwise get for doing research. Average government fellowship in India at any academic or research institute is approximately Rs 25,000 per month, including house rent allowance (HRA). Under the Prime Minister’s Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research, the scholars get double the JRF/SRF as scholarship. While one-half of this scholarship comes from the government, the second half comes from a partner company which also works closely with the candidate on the research project. The first batch commenced in 2013. The scheme has been made open-ended since September 2014, allowing aspirants to apply anytime within 14 months from their PhD registration.

Fellowships have been conferred to 54 PM Fellows in the first 2 years with 29 institutes and 47 companies coming together to support the scheme. It is envisaged that this scheme would eventually attract large number of talented students into pursuing PhD and on changing industry’s mind-set in investing in R&D and recruiting more PhDs.

Apex Council:
The Apex Council is the highest decision-making body of this scheme. It is chaired by former secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, Dr MK Bhan and has representation from both industry and academia. The Apex Council vets the proposals received under the scheme and gives its recommendations on the candidates to be supported under the scheme.

Fellowship – Framework:
** Up to 100 new Fellowships are provided every year.
** 50% of the scholarship comes from SERB [being equivalent to the prevailing Government norms for Junior Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow (inclusive of HRA)], which can be revised as per the JRF/SRF norms from time to time.
** Rest 50% (matching equivalent of SERB component) comes from the partner company.
** Duration of the Fellowship is four years.
** If selected to receive the Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research, the candidate ceases to receive any other scholarship / salary from any other organisation, which he / she may be receiving at the time of enrolling into the scheme.

Contact Us:
Confederation of Indian Industry
3rd Floor, IGSSS Building
28 Institutional Area
Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003

Telephone: 011- 45772038, 45772009 Fax: 01145772014
Email: Shalini.sharma@cii.in, neha.gupta@cii.in, pm.scheme@cii.ic