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ICSSR Senior Fellowship 2024 : Indian Council of Social Science Research

What is ICSSR Senior Fellowship?

Senior Fellowship 2024 is sponsored by ICSSR Indian Council of Social Science Research. Senior Fellowships are awarded to outstanding Indian Social Scientists for conducting full time research on themes and issues of national and social concern. These studies are expected to contribute to theoretical and conceptual advancement in different disciplines, help in generating field work based empirical data and contribute towards policy making. Last Date of Fellowship is 27th February 2024.

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Eligibility of Senior Fellowship

1. The scholar should not be less than 45 and more than 70 years of age as on the last date of application.

2. The scholar must possess Ph.D. Degree and have, in the opinion of the ICSSR, the necessary competence to conduct research in social sciences or allied disciplines in addition to having outstanding research publications at the time of application.

3. A fellow must affiliate himself/herself to an ICSSR Research Institute/Regional Centre, Institutes of national importance, approved by MoE/government research institute/public funded university including deemed university of his/her choice. Funds are disbursed through the affiliating/administering institution.

4. Faculties with regular service in public funded universities/colleges and research institutes getting UGC pay-scales may be considered for pay protection in exceptionally meritorious cases, which is to be decided by the Expert Committees of the ICSSR. The Expert Committee of the ICSSR also reserves the right to convert a fellowship proposal into a Project Proposal.

How to Apply for Senior Fellowship?

1. Applications will be invited through open advertisement on ICSSR website and its social media platforms and should be received before the deadline mentioned in the advertisement.

2. The candidates shall submit online application. All applicants are requested to take a print out of the application submitted online and send the same along with its attachments to the ICSSR to reach within 10 days from the last date of the submission of application. Please send these documents through Speed Post to the “In charge, RFS Division, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi – 110067”.

In case, the hard copy of application is not received within 10 days, the candidature of applicant may be treated as cancelled.

3. The Research Proposal should either be in Hindi or English (Use Unicode 8 (UTF-8) to fill the form in Hindi)
4. One applicant can submit only one application under Senior Fellowship scheme. However, he/she can apply separately for another scheme.

Procedure for Award of Senior Fellowship

1 Applications are scrutinized.
2 Thereafter Expert Committee(s) short-list the meritorious proposals from the eligible applications.
3 The short-listed applicants may then be invited for an interaction/presentation before an Expert Committee.
4 After interaction, the Expert Committee/s makes recommendation for the award by the ICSSR, which are finalised and approved by the competent authority.

Duration & Value of Senior Fellowship

** Senior Fellowship is a full time research work.
** The duration of fellowship shall be for two years and no extension will be considered.
** The value of the fellowship for unemployed and superannuated scholars is Rs.45,000/- per month and contingency grant is Rs.40,000/- per annum irrespective of the pensionary benefit.

** Under Salary protection, a fellow is entitled to salary and allowances admissible as per rules and contingency grant of Rs.40,000/-p.a. However, special allowances like children education allowance, medical reimbursement, LTC, etc. are not admissible from the ICSSR. The parent institution may, however, pay/reimburse the same as per its rule.

Conditions of Senior Fellowship

1. The applicants under salary protection should have been in regular service for two years in an academic institution. The institution shall certify that it will maintain their lien on the post during the period of fellowship and allow them to return after the fellowship period.

2. The contingency grant may be utilized for research and office assistance, books, stationery, computer related costs, research assistance and the field work expenses related with the research work.

3. The Copyright © of the manuscript will rest with the ICSSR. The ICSSR reserves all rights to publish the fellowship report funded by it, provided the work is recommended for publication by Expert/Experts. The scholars can get it published themselves only after seeking permission from ICSSR.

4. The scholar shall acknowledge ICSSR’s support in all publications resulting from the research output of the fellowship.
5. All fellowships are subject to income tax deductions as per the Government of India rules at the level of the affiliating/ administering institution.
6. Defaulters of any previous fellowship/project/grant of the ICSSR will not be eligible for consideration until the applicant obtains the clearance from the concerned administrative division.
7. A fellow is not entitled for the same fellowship or pay protection more than once.

8. The research proposal/final report of the fellowship cannot be submitted for the award of any University degree/diploma or funding by any institution. The ICSSR however, will have no objection if the scholar utilizes the research data for this purpose.

9. The fellowship may be transferred from one affiliating institution to another on the request of the scholar under special circumstance with ICSSR approval, subject to submission of the following documents:
(1) Satisfactory progress report;
(2) No objection certificate from both previous and the proposed university/institute;
(3) Audited statement of account and utilization certificate along with unspent balance, if any.

10. A gap of minimum 03 years is required from submission of Final Report of Post-Doctoral Fellowship and application of Senior Fellowship and submission of the Project Report (Major/Research Programme/Sponsored Project).

11. While accepting senior fellowship from the ICSSR, a fellow should not accept any other fellowship or research project from any other institution or regular financial benefit/assignment from any other institution.

12. During the tenure of fellowship, the fellow will be governed by the rules of the affiliating institution in all matters including drawals of TA/DA, holidays/leave and contingency grant, etc. However, the duration and amount of fellowship will not exceed twenty four months.

13. The selected fellows are expected to do full time research in India. They could, however, undertake data collection outside India in exceptional cases and if warranted by the needs of the proposal. For this they are required to apply separately for consideration under the Data Collection Scheme of the International Collaboration Division.

14. The scholar should not have been subjected to any disciplinary/legal action/proceedings/financial penalties in his/her career/ research career.
15. The final report submitted by the scholar will be considered satisfactory, only after its evaluation by the ICSSR.
16. Books/periodicals/equipment purchased by the scholar out of the contingency grant should be deposited with the affiliating institution.

17. Application submitted against one Call will not be considered for the subsequent Calls.
18. The Council reserves the right to reject any application. It is also not responsible for any postal loss/delays in communication.
19. Incomplete applications in any respect shall not be considered for fellowship.
20. Research proposal/final report submitted for fellowship should not be under consideration for funding/ award of the degree by any University/ Institution.

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