COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (CSIR)

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) provides financial assistance to promote research work in the fields of Science & Technology, including Agriculture, Engineering and Medicine. The assistance is provided by way of grants to Professors/Experts in regular employment, in the universities, IITs, post-graduate institutions, recognised R&D laboratories both in public and private sectors. Research proposals of applied nature as well as those falling under basic sciences which attempt to solve specific problems being pursued by CSIR laboratories, or in newer and complementary fields, are considered for CSIR support. Priority is given to multi-disciplinary projects which involve inter-organisational co-operation (including that of CSIR laboratories). However, preference is given to schemes which have relevance to research programmes of CSIR laboratories.

• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
• Syllabus for Joint CSIR UGC Test for JRF & LS (NET)
• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF)
• Research Associateship (RA)
• Senior Research Associateship (SRA) (Scientist’s Pool Scheme)
• Emeritus Scientist
• Visiting Associateship
• Research Scheme / Sponsored Research Schemes
• Indian Language Journal
• Travel Grant
• Grant for Holding Symposium/Seminar
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB)
• G N Ramachandran Gold Medal
• Young Scientist Awards (YSA)
• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF)
• CSIR-Nehru Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme
• Programme on Technology Led Entrepreneurship
• CSIR Program on Youth for Leadership in Science (CPYLS)
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UNIVERSITY GRANT COMMISSION (UGC)

UGC supports the colleges, universities and individuals through various research funding schemes.

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FOR COLLEGE ONLY

• Faculty Development Programme for Colleges
• Organising Conferences/Workshops/Seminars in colleges
• Development Assistance to colleges for the Construction of Buildings.
• Development Grant to Colleges (includes 14 merged schemes)
• College with Potential for Excellence
• UGC-Network Resource Center (UGC-NRC) in the Colleges
• Jubilee, Centenary Grants to Colleges.
• Instrumentation Maintenance Facility (IMF) in College.
• Establishment of New Model Degree Colleges in educationally Backward District Low (GER) .
• Guidelines for implementing the scheme for providing One-time Catch-up Grant to Uncovered (Non-12 B) Colleges

FOR BOTH UNIVERSITY / COLLEGES

• Introduction of Career Oriented Courses in Universities and Colleges
• Guidelines for Development of Women’s Studies in Indian Universities and Colleges.
• Guidelines for Human Rights and Values in Education.
• Guidelines for Setting Up of Media Centres / Affilated Media Centres.
• Guidelines scheme on Lifelong Learning and Extension.
• Guidelines for UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium.
• Guidelines for Estabilshemnt and Monitoring of the Internal Quality Assurance Cells (IQACs) in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).
• E-Content Development.
• Developement of Sports Infrastructure and Equipment in Universities and Colleges.
• Guidelines for providing additional assistance to Universities and 5500 Colleges already covered under Section 12(B) of the UGC Act, 1956.
• Guidelines for Eastablishment of Special Cells for SCs & STs in Universities/ Deemed to be Universities and Grant-in-aid Institutions & IUCs receiving central assistance.
• Guidelines for Universities, Research Institute and Colleges for Procurement, Storage, Usage and Disposal of Radioactive and other Hazardous Materials/ Chemicals.

FOR DEPARTMENTS OF UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE

• Special Assistance Programme (SAP).
• Guidelines For Innovative Programmes.
• Research Fellowship in Humanities & Social Sciences Students (RFH & SSS).

FOR INDIVIDUAL

• Research Awards
• Emeritus Fellowship.
• Travel Grant Scheme for College Teachers/College Librarians/Vice Chancellors/Commission Members and UGC Officers. (Hindi Version)
• Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship Scheme For Single Girl Child
• Post Graduate Merit Scholarship Scheme For University Rank Holders In General & Honours Courses At Undergraduate Level
• Research Fellowship in Sciences for Meritorious Students.
• Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Sciences, Medical Sciences & Engineering Sciences.
• Dr.S Radhakrishnan Post Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) in Humanities and special Social Sciences(including language) for the year 2008-2009.
• Research Project for Teachers Major and Minor .(Hindi Version)
• Capacity Building for Women Managers in Higher Education.(Hindi Version)
• Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC/ST Candidates.
• UGC new scheme of providing special honorarium to teachers who are Fellows of at least two of the four Science Academies identified by UGC.
• UGC Revised Guidelines for the Scheme of Appointment / Honorarium of Guest/Part-Time Teachers.
• Scheme for Incentivisation of Teachers, Subject /Discipline based Association for Organisation of Various Academic & Research Activities
• Guidelines for strengthening Social Science And Humanities Teaching And Research Capacity
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Research Associateship (RA) for Foreign Nationals
• Junior Research Fellowship in Engineering & Technology
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Post Doctoral Fellowship to Women Candidates
• Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (DST)

• To promote research in newly emerging frontier areas of science and engineering including multidisciplinary fields.
• To encourage young scientists to take up challenging R&D activities.
• To give special encouragement to projects from relatively small and less endowed University Departments and Institutions.
• To encourage patenting facilities to scientists and technologists in the country for Indian and foreign patents on a sustained basis.