PLEASE READ EVERYTHING HERE (INCLUDING THE COMMENTS) AND KEEP VISITING FOR UPDATES.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has increased the Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (JRF/SRF) to 18000 and 21000 Rupees per month respectively and it will be applicable retrospectively from September 1, 2009. The YFE in JNU campus on 19 December, 2009 put up the following wall poster congratulating the student community: an RTI reply from the UGC [F. No.12-20/2009 RTI/(SA-1)] confirming the increase in fellowships.
The RTI reply from the concerned department in UGC is in Hindi language. It also answers some questions apart from the fellowship amount increase. The UGC had earlier indicated that the increase will be 16000 and 20000 Rupees per month. So this increase is a pleasant surprise to students. This increase does not relate to the CSIR, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowships, DBT or ICMR but sooner or later it all fellowships should be at par. Here is a snapshot of the RTI reply captured from the YFE poster. Also see the update below (this is yet to be approved by the Finance Ministry).
Update: 22 Dec 2009
The following news piece in Hindi Hindustan (Delhi edition) says the increment is awaiting approval in the Finance Ministry and it has been three months. It also says that CSIR (and other bodies like the DST, ICMR) will increase the JRF/SRF amount to 18000 and 21000 Rupees once it is approved for the UGC. [Update: by Hindi Hindustan I mean the Hindustan dainik Hindi newspaper of the Hindustan Times group. I wrote Hindi Hindustan so that people do not confuse it with the Hindustan Times English paper. See the comments criticizing me here]
UPDATE 21 January 2010: Cabinet approves seat increase for JRF through CSIR NET.
“Increase in the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) by two fold over the Tenth Plan period. During the Tenth Five Year Plan a total of about 6000 young students benefited by availing CSIR-JRF through NET. In the Eleventh Plan CSIR proposes to increase the number by two fold. The total cost of providing fellowships for about 12000 students in the Eleventh Plan is estimated at Rs.444.34 crore.” Read the full report in this PIB release.
UPDATE 11 FEB 2010: UGC CHAIRMAN CONFIRMS IT IN A JNU PUBLIC MEETING
Here is some solid news for on this. Yesterday the law minister was in JNU Campus with JNU VC and UGC Chairman S.K. Thorat in a public meeting in SSS auditorium in JNU campus attended by about 500 students. Amit Ranjan, the YFE activist in JNU, publicly asked this question to the Mr. Thorat on whether or not the UGC is increasing the fellowship amount to 18000 and 21000 Rupees along with a copy of the UGC RTI reply published above. The UGC Chairman said the RTI reply is authentic and the increase will soon be implemented once the approval letter comes from the Finance Ministry. He also said that he will phone/update the JNU VC on 11 February 2010 about it. He even said that the UGC Non-NET Fellowships (of 3k, 5k Rupees for M.phil PhD students) may be increased to 5k and 8k Rupees respectively.
Please note that it is about UGC and not CSIR but needless to say sooner or later it will be implemented everywhere (as indicated the HT news item above). Also Amit Ranjan and others have filed scores of RTIs to various bodies on this; keep watching this space and blog for updates.
Update: UGC Replies to RTI queries ,11 Feb 2010.
See the snspshots below. UGC in the RTI replies has informed that the “fellowship increment announced is pending due to allocation of funds by the Ministry of HRD.” There are some other questions too but the UGC has not replied to them as you can see below.The UGC replies are in the column on the right hand side (blank meaning no reply).
Update: News in Hindustan (Hindi) published 16 February 2010
See the snapshot of the news item on JRF-SRF increase below. Madan Jaida of HT (the earlier HT news item above is also by him) writes that the JRF SRF fellowship increase is caught in the files due to non-allotment of funds in the MHRD.
DG, CSIR reads this blog 
Update: 10 March 2010. The DG, CSIR Mr. Brahmachari also reads this page; he said this in a meeting with students recently. See my comment below for more!
Hurray.
but how long will it take for sanction by finance department?
do we have to wait and watch?
Amit,
I think the best policy is to wait and watch.
How much time was taken earlier at the time of earlier Increment?…i think that can provide some clue about the hike……of fellowship………..wait and watch
If this is a matter of increment of Salary or perks of illiterate,less eduacted currupt politician, it could have approved immediately by all department of govt of india. How bad luck of india , a research fellow paid less than what a paanwala or rickshaw pullaer of daily wager earn in a month.. keep it up guys !!!
Ashish,
Your anger is justified but to say that daily wagers and paanwalas and rickshaw pullers have more than 12 or 14 k Rupees in a month is a bit too much!
hey vikas
i dont have any ideas about the wages earned by paanwala or rickshaw pullers but just visit the csir homepage and look for the remuneration link in the RTI section. u can clearly see how much depriver we really are
as the drivers and grade IV staffs are earning significntly higher than us.
Okay Surajit,
I read the said portion. Here is an extract from the page on the remuneration of some lower-level employees! http://www.csir.res.in/External/Utilities/Frames/aboutcsir/main_page.asp?a=topframe.htm&b=leftcon.htm&c=/csir/external/heads/aboutcsir/information_act.htm
Impressive salaries indeed. Thanks for the suggestion.
1909 MR RAMU Safaiwala 14411
3118 MR D S RAWAT WATCHMEN 13879
3119 MR RAM KUMAR SAFAIWALA 12678
3120 MR BHAJAN SINGH BEERER 13824
3121 MR HARI RAM WATCHMEN 14214
3163 MR RICH PAL SAFAIWALA 16057
THESE ARE ANOTHER EVIDENCES….LOOK AT THE PAY SCALE OF A TEA MAKER….
839 Sh Narender Singh TEA MAKER 18793
840 Sh Om Prakash BEARER 15288
843 Sh Sabar Singh ASSTT. COOK 14676
ITS JUST NOT FARE WITH THE RESEARCH SCHOLARS….RESEARCHERS GIVE A LOT AND GET A SMALLLLL….AND MOST EMPLOYEE GIVE SMALL GET A LOT…………
I think and positively hope it will start in 2010..
Arindum is right , we need to think positive and hope for best in 2010 !!!
Hi!
i am working as a project associate level -1 in a CSIR-network project in CCMB. after completion of my Ph.D. Is this fellowship increase applicable to RA, PDF and Project associate.
Kindly inform.
Regards
yours sincerely
i am working as a project associate level -1 in a CSIR-network project in CCMB. after completion of my Ph.D. Is this fellowship increase applicable to RA, PDF and Project associate.
Kindly inform.
Regards
yours sincerely
Neelima,
Whatever info I have put it up there. I will update it if I know anything new (or leave a link here if you know something).
Meanwhile what you can do is file an RTI to CSIR for more details (and for most authentic information). If you do not know how to file an RTI application then read this post: http://vikas-gupta.in/2009/01/16/how-to-file-an-rti-petition/
It feels good to hear the news of hike of salary.Lets hope it is implimented as soon as poosible.
Please give the latest information about the payment hike of research scholars.
I do not have any information to update here. Feel free to submit an RTI to UGC/CSIR (see comments above on how to file an RTI application).
Is there will be any problem if I submit RTI to UGC/CSIR in future regarding my fellowship?
Ranjit,
Why will there be any problem? Feel free to ask any question to them. But if you are still worried you can use a friend’s name or pseudonym and ask the fellowship question in general. All the best.
Government to revise value of doctoral fellowships: PM
“The government is considering the revision of the value of doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships. New schemes will be formulated to cover all research scholars with some funding support,” Manmohan Singh said at the inaugural of the Indian Science Congress (ISC2010) here.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3515448
Thanks Rajesh for the link and the update!
Is it realy applicable to CSIR-SRF only the ugc.
yes… finaly it is a good hope for research schplar
yes. it will be very good news for research scholars
is this hike in stipend applicable only for those who have cleared net and get their fellowship from csir or ugc?I am doing my phd at a research institute and have been admitted through other all india exams
Oindrila,
It is presently only for the UGC, then other bodies will implement it. You can file an RTI application with your organisation if you want more authentic info.
Everyone here, there is an update. The Cabinet today approved the seat increase for JRF through CSIR NET and it will be now increased to 12000 from the present 6000. Read the full report here http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=57139
Here is the full text:
Hello,
is this increament also applicable 4 CSIR Jrf?
It should soon be implemented in all agencies. Please read the full text and comments again.
whether ugc increasing number of fellowships\fellowship amount i.e from 12000 to 18000 for jrf?
cabinet approved only increase in intake of JRF-NET fellowships or hike in fellowship amount?
Sudhakar,
Please read everything here. I know only what i have published here. If I have any updates I will write it here. Thanks.
i am doing phd in metallurgy. is this 6th pay increment applicable for us also?
Just an UPDATE for everyone:
Few days ago I got an RTI reply from JNU administration. They do not have any official communication about the UGC fellowship increase as yet.
A ‘friend and senior with contacts’ says “it has been approved by both the MHRD and Finance ministry” and sooner or later it will be there.
Some students will soon file an RTI with UGC. If any of you filed an RTI with UGC or CSIR, do write updates here.
you from JNU vikas? I would like to know more about this finance ministry approval thingy…
Rajat,
Yes that is so.
And I do not have any concrete info on what you asked. I have written whatever I know in the content and comments here. Thanks.
What fuck is this,
You got a printout and spread it all over India. And how full are those phd scholars who have accepted this . “Hindi Hindustan” what kind of news paper is this. Your fucking information doesn’t have any authenticity. You just want to get publicity for your fuck-in blog. Piss on you man. And on your information. Government is thinking of increasing the fellowship .It generally takes years . You people are telling it is already implemented. And you know the exact amount. If this was true then PM would have declared it in Indian Science congress meeting.
Go to hell
I agree with you Bakwas. In most of the iit and Nit people believing this piece of shit. Which doesn’t have a name. People were telling it was Hindustan Times. Now I come to know it ‘Hindi Hindusta’. We never heard of a news paper with this name. Shame on you Vikash. You played with thousand of scholars.
Rajiv
Rajiv and Bakwas,
This is RTI reply from UGC (fully authentic official reply).
The Hindi Hindustan is Hindustan Dainik newspaper; I culled it from the epaper; . Feel free to criticize me. I am not seeking any publicity here. The CSIR increase in number of fellowships was implemented recently. The govt programmes do take time; why not wait and see instead of criticizing me here.
Bakwas and others,
By Hindi Hindustan I mean the Hindustan dainik Hindi newspaper of the Hindustan Times group. I wrote Hindi Hindustan so that people do not confuse it with the Hindustan Times English paper.
http://epaper.hindustandainik.com/ Go see the piece of news which I have reproduced here in the 22 Dec newspaper. Or talk to Madan Jaida by calling the Hindustan’s office. (the epaper does not have the 22 Dec archieve now; but you can see the hard copy of the paper in your library).
The news is authentic; believe it or not. Implementation will take time of course like all govt. schemes. According to reliable reports, this reporter Madan Jaida was even with Kapil Sibal in a high-profile meeting and had asked it to him. I will soon publish more RTIs here from the YFE activists. Feel free to criticize me more and do not hesitate to write your real names.
And I am also waiting for the increase FYI! So do not think that I do not feel frustrated about the delay.
informations by Vikas are real and people should unite and support him rather than doing Bakwas/uncivilized talking
Thank you Vivek for the comment. Every piece of info here is authentic. I do not fear criticism and will never delete bad comments (I hate censorship).
Thanks again.
HOW MANY JRF’S INCREASED?
Research is the key for update knowledge in all spheres of education if it stops it will definitely paralize the whole system of gaining knowledge. The fellowships (monthly stippened) provided by the UGC/CSIR in the field of science & humanities is not up to the expectations of the scholars working in different field because there is sufficient reason, viz., if you go through the monthly salaries of primary-secondary schools teachers; and other less qualified job holders have more salary than the prestigious JRF/SRf with NET. If the stippen increases the fellows get more enthu in doing their research. There are Scholars from poor families in rural oriented Universities who has to met the requirements of their family from this stippen, all these things should be in mind before taking any dicission by the Minstry of Finance. Implimentation is nessesary.
Thanks
ministers give great lectures about research but never do anything for this field.a group D staff gets much better pay.no one can live like Gautam Buddha in these days where a kg of dal costs around 130.
To the Indian Government—-
ab to kuch karo yaar…..students are our future and research is the only path.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/newdelhi/Researchers-to-get-money-equal-to-IAS-entrants/Article1-444409.aspx
Most of you have read this news
People who did not read it; please go to the above link and you can read the news about the fellowship increment which was published on 18th August 2009. Hey Rajiv you must read it.
Thanks for the link Kriss. I had written about it in the post without the link to prevent confusion because now it should soon be 18 k and 21 k Rupees though people here are cursing me!
hey friends plz tell which is truth is it increased or not
can u tell me when the increased fellowship will be implemented?
Atul and others,
I have no idea on the dates of implementation. It will take time just like all govt. schemes.
UPDATE 11 FEB 2010
Here is some solid news for us. Yesterday the law minister was in JNU Campus with JNU VC and UGC Chairman S.K. Thorat. Amit Ranjan, the YFE activist in JNU, publicly asked this question to the Mr. Thorat on whether or not the UGC is increasing the fellowship amount to 18000 and 21000 Rupees along with a copy of the UGC RTI reply published above. The UGC Chairman said the RTI reply is authentic and the increase will soon be implemented once the approval letter comes from the Finance Ministry. He also said that he will phone/update the JNU VC on 11 February 2010 about it. He even said that the UGC Non-NET Fellowships (of 3k, 5k Rupees for M.phil PhD students) may be increased to 5k and 8k Rupees respectively.
Please note that it is about UGC and not CSIR but needless to say sooner or later it will be implemented everywhere (as indicated the HT news item above).
Thanks Vikas for new updates.
Surely fellowship will increased as you mentioned. I have news published on 29 th JAN 2009. as follow
http://www.thehindu.com/2010/01/29/stories/2010012955051100.htm
Research fellowships to be increased
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: The Centre plans to give a boost to research in basic science by increasing the number of research fellowships and fellowship money for scholars.
Secretary of Department of Science and Technology T. Ramasami said the government was planning to increase the quantum of research fellowships by at least 40 per cent………………..Thanks a lot.
Thanks Ashok for the link.
what is the date u r xpecting , vikas???
before april ??
this page is a good job , dude.
keep it up.
Indian, I have no idea on that but yes it should not take later than April. Keep visiting this page. Am soon publishing an RTI reply here.
Update: UGC Replies to RTI queries ,11 Feb 2010.
See the snspshots added above. UGC in the RTI replies has informed that the “fellowship increment announced is pending due to allocation of funds by the Ministry of HRD.”
All those who have criticized me can go fly a kite!
More RTI replies will be here soon.
how much time will the finance minister take to implement it?
How much would be Research Associate (RA) fellowship? Any authentic news on that?
Normally they give Rs.18000/- fellowship to RA and with 50% increase (for JRF and SRF they have given 50% rise) shall we believe it to be around 27000 + HRA? Can anybody confirm about this?
i am a srf working for DBT project. does this increment relates to phd scholars or srfs/RAs working for CSIR/DBT projects in research institutions.
thank you for updating information
Nice Webpage.!! All material is linked with authentic citation: A true sign of true research scholar.!!
Thanks for uploading these news.
Thanks Amit. I had people criticizing me here just the same!
Hi! I want to know that the fellowship hike is 18,000 + HRA or HRA is included in that
Prasad, it does not include HRA, needless to say.
I work as JRF under BRNS sponsered research project. Will the hike in salary be applicable to me. Please let me know….
Praveen,
Presently it is only the UGC but it will soon spread to all other organizations/bodies once it is implemented at the UGC. Feel free to file an RTI to your organization for more information.
Great, thanks for such a wonderful information.
I think in 26th feb budget session they can anounced for the fund, what you think Vikas.
Dear Vikas,
Thanks for informations with nice updates. I confused with news of hindustan times updated at 16th Feb 2010. In news Mrs. Raksha Pahwa is represent as the Under Secretary of Finanace Ministry. But as I know She is the Under Secretary of UGC (Selection and Award Bureau). So Hindustan Times news seems not to be reliable.
Manoj,
You are right; I have also noted that error. The article is genuine and real. Madan Zaida must have written it in a hurry!
Naveen, I have no ideas on that.
I think we can only wait and watch.
Usually how much time will it take for the implementation of salary by other agencies like DST or DAE after UGC implements the new salary scale.
Ab to wait krne ki intha ho gyi h…….plz plz plz koi btao kb badhegi fellowship…
Hi all…..
can anyone please help me with my problem…….I have applied for PhD. at delhi university but have not received my registration letter as yet. But my date of Availing JRF has expired. Although the date on which I had applied to Delhi University falls under the period of availing JRF.
I am really confused and worried about what will happen to my JRF award. Do I still have a chance to avail my JRF???
Please somebody help.
Dear Gaurav, If you applied for funds before expiry date then your JRF award is safe. It will take 3-4 month for saction letter from csir/UGC after that they will send you sanction letter and your fellowship will start. But if you are in delay and applied for fellowship after expiry date then there is quite less chance of activate your fellowship.
If you are CSIR -JRF awardee please contact to CSIR 01125721074.
This number where you can ask about ur fellowchip if ur CSIR fellow.
Thanks
Dear Ashok
Many thanks for your reply. I could not apply to the funds before as I do not have a official registration date.but I have submitted a letter to UGC requesting to keep my JRF alive till the time I get my registration letter from Delhi University. But after that I am not getting any feedback from UGC as what happened to that my request, is my jrf still active.
What to do now….I am confused.
And one more question does anyone has idea about difference in date of registration and date of Joining.
Thanks
Dear Gaurav,
I believe the Ph. D. registration and JRFship are two different things. Ideally, CSIR has nothing to do with ur Ph.D. Anyone who has been awarded the fellowship, have to avail the fellowship with the given period of time by CSIR. I donno why have not availed the fellowship even when u were not having registration letter. To do that, it is the ‘joining letter’ that u have to forward to CSIR with PI’s signature.
University will send u a letter that u have been given admission to Ph.D. The date that they will mention on that is ‘date of registration’. but again, CSIR has nothing to do with that, U should have availed the fellowship long back, 6 months are given to the fellow to send the ‘joining letter’. If u r in Delhi, talk to someone in CSIR regarding, see if they can help.
Plz update us here with ur experience as such information may be useful to others.
Thanks Amit for clarifying my doubts……things look a bit clear now and will surely update about the my experience.
i feel if UGC has increased the fellowship, y the hell is CSIR takin so much time.. the exam is conducted jointly by both and the in the result we do not get an option as to we would like to b a CSIR fellow or a UGC fellow.. so both the organizations need to work simultaneously and the proposals should be the same.. and CSIR pl do somethin fast..
Dear Gaurav, Amit is saying correct. There is no relationship between your fellowship and registration. You have to send joining report to CSIR in replicated and your finance department will take care of all these things. You have to send your joining report to CSIR before expiry date and make sure that your joining report has been summited on the time by your finance office to CSIR.
Hope your problem will solve as soon as possible.
All the best for future carrier.
God bless you Always !!!
Its the Budget day today… Atleast will we know today whether the fellowships will be increased or not…
In budget 2010, there are nothing about Fellowship increament, it won’t increase. This is fact about fellowship. We have to wait for 2-4 years.
Finally a ray of light may come in research scholars life, follow this link, you can get some good news.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=58268
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Ministry of Human Resource Development
Government steps to make teaching attractive
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17:35 IST
LOK SABHA
While the power to make appointments to the teaching posts in a Central University vests in its Board of Management/Executive Council, the Government keeps on reminding the Central Universities to fill the vacancies at an early date. The Government/UGC is taking the following measures aimed at attracting the bright young people to adopt teaching in higher education as a career vis-à-vis the opportunity available to them in view of the emerging sectors of economy, thereby managing the teaching positions at various levels:
• Enhancing rates of Junior and Senior Research Fellowships by about 50%;
• Strengthening science based education and research in Universities;
• Disbursement of grant for presentation of research papers in international fora/conferences;
• Enhancing the quantum of research grant to Universities aimed at encouraging research;
• Introducing Ramanujan Fellowship to attract distinguished Indian faculty serving in foreign Universities;
• Introducing Bose Fellowship aimed at strengthening research background of the distinguished faculty serving in India.
• Allowing consultancy charges to be shared by the faculty;
• Revamping Academic Staff Colleges;
• Organizing summer school to train teachers; etc.
• Enhancing the retirement age of teachers from 62 to 65 years as also retention of the re-employed teachers upto the age of 70 years.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today.
Do u have a GO for this. With out a Govt Order no one can see the salary coming to them. So some please upload GO if u find it anywhere in this issue here…
are you arpan manna?
yes …..can you give ur actual identity
abe ami soumik re
Guru Jambeshwar University, Haryana is giving 18000 per month for their PhD students from this year……..so, hope for the best.
link:http://jansanchaar.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1815:gju-will-conduct-the-phd-entrance&catid=35:haryana-news&Itemid=55
Can any one tell me that when we will get increased fellowship.
I went through the Budget speech. There was no mentioning of any kind of enhancement in the fellowship or enhancement of fund allocation for either UGC or CSIR. If any one has a better reason even now to say that our fellowships will increase, Please let us know with a valid and strong support like a Govt Order or an RTI reply.
I went through the Budget speech. There was no mentioning of any kind of enhancement in the fellowship or enhancement of fund allocation for either UGC or CSIR. If any one has a better reason even now to say that our fellowships will increase, Please let us know with a valid and strong support like a Govt Order or an RTI reply….
hey,can any one tell me that how someone get different UGC JRF and someone CSIR JRF in science subjects while there is single exam? Is CSIR JRF awarded to better marks getter?
No, there is no marks different. I think this is the lottery. because we know only top 20% of the qualified students are called for the SPM written examination.And we know both UGC and CSIR qualified students are called for this exam in the basis of marks only. so there should not be any marks difference between CSIR and UGC.
See the link below.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=58268
Thanks for the link….I think within a month now.. they are going to announce….Hopefully….!!
when it will going to implement these fellowship. then they will announce the increnment, if yes how much
hi!
I think after 1 year fellowship will be increase!!!
fellowships will NEVER increase.bhar me jao sab.sab sala chutia ,dialogue marte hain ….paise k time me thenga !!!!
disgusting authorities !!!!
Mr. Indian… Pl stop calling yourself as Indian… Be a true Indian than just calling urself an Indian. See Indian govt is giving u a facility to get a degree that too by paying u… The authorities have their own problems when looking after all their responsibilities. So lets give them time… V r not beggers to keep begging them a hike. V r getting a fellowship not a handsome salary… I hope u ll stop thinking like this… Think positive cos thats what is in need for India now to progress…
Mr. Indian, plz mind ur language, U r on public forum. U r proving ur statement with ur own example!
Why have so much of frustration.!!?
praveen, do u know s.hawking is leaving cambridge ???
just ans why ???
all the money for management guys,EDIOTIC SHITS WITH CHEATING ABILITY ???? damn u guys.
why no price for theoritical physicist ????
smartest minds with negligence,why???
I AM NOT FRUSTRATED, I AM HURT WITH TODAY’S WORLD OF THINKING.
Dear Indian, Your frustration is understandable but remember its your own choice. While making career choice, it was you who chose to go for further education instead of going for a job. If money is what attracts you then you could have done a course which is in demand in the booming Indian job-market. Instead of contributing to nation’s economy and getting rewarded for it by handsome salary, you took an unconventional path and now demanding from government to support your education from taxpayers money. Everybody is paid according to the marginal contribution s/he brings to the society and the current societal thinking is that “management guys” contribute more than a wannabe “theoretical physicists”, hence the differential reward. So, get your basics right and change yourself according to the world and do not wait the world to change according to you.
Cheers!
well said Bharatiya…
Before entering into the field of science pl understand guys that V r here for a craze and not to earn money…
This is a very drastic opinion for members in this discussion board, but I feel that Indian government should significantly reduce its doctoral/post-doctoral fellowship schemes. JRFs/SRFs are like dangling bread in the mouse trap, which weans away many young bright Indians towards dead-end careers and contributes to the ’scientist glut’ problem. The ad-hoc research trainee position idea is taken from the United States, which itself is now debating worthiness of such a system in long run. See this very good article in Scientific American.
Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists? (open access)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m&offset=6
dear bharatiya,
i am a faculty (joined recently) in a research institute.i myself dont need anything, but i feel bad for the researchers.that’s it dude…
Dear Indian,
If you are faculty then your language is very much bad. After reading felt so bad how can you be the faculty if your own words are not good. Why you think about researchers. First think about what you says at public place. let improve yourself better because your are in society.
As part of Government body (Police officer) we need to take action on you as you are part of research institute. In which institute you do research or work? I think we need to talk with your director and need to show your progress.
Its not good sign of researcher.
Keep patience and by the way fellowship will shortly increased.To increase fellowship require time because it is not to give one person but there is huge quantity of students. So let understand and co-operate.
vikas,
any news ?
Here is an UPDATE for CSIR people
Amit Ranjan of JNU has informed that about 15 students from premier scientific institutions (such as NII, ICGEB, JNU, Maulana Azad and others) had a meeting with Mr. Brahmchari, the CSIR DG on the issue of increment of fellowhips.
They will soon (in a day or two) have a meeting with Mr. T. Ramaswamy (secretary, DST). Amit said he will keep us informed of new developments.
AND HERE IS A BIG NEWS. Mr. Brahmachari, DG CSIR said he reads this blog!
So things are looking bright for CSIR people too. Just wait please.
Great news!!
Better late than never!!
Please keep us informed.
research fellowship in india is pathetic at present. just a graduate in other fields such as management and IT sectors earn thrice as much as a poor research associate with phd earns. considering the long, torturous and extnded period of time we spend doing phd……the value of our phd degree is just Rs. 1000/- (you get 15000 as srf extended and rs 16000 as RA after getting phd)……….This is the fate of a fresh young scientist in INDIA!!!!
well said wave.i also have the same opinion as u.
Hae guys,
I need some help regarding Medical Allowances. Im a research student in Bangalore University. Im getting salary from a project sponsored by DAE-BRNS funding agency. I get 12k + HRA. The rules of BRNS suggest that I should also get Medical Allowances (MA). But since my university has a Primary Health Center I will not get the MA.
A few days back I have met with an accident. Now doctor is suggesting me to undergo an MRI scan which costs me not less than 7k. So i need information whether I can get the benifit of Medical Allowances for such cases. Please if anyone has already undergone this case before pl help me.
Hi Praveen,
Even if your university has a Primary Health Center, you may get Medical Allowances.I m doing PhD from IIT Bombay and we also have hospital for us, even then we can get upto 50,000 of Medical Allowances in one time.So I will suggest to talk to ur university, and u can get substancial amount.
Well Vikas, Doing well and go ahead for Research Scholar rights and promotion of science in INDIA