Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024

Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024. PhD Admission University of Kalyani. Admission Notification (PH.D) Published on 06/12/2024.

Applications are invited (online) for admission to Ph.D. Programme in different disciplines from eligible candidates as per relevant provisions of the Kalyani University (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2022, as notified by the Registrar bearing number RPS/N/Ph.D. Regul./309/2023 dated: 18/08/2023.

Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024

UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI Advertisement for admission to Ph.D. Programme – 2024.

Adv. No. Ph. D./15/November/2024

Online applications are invited from eligible candi- dates for admission to Ph.D. Programmes in different disciplines.

Ph.D. Programme: Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024

A. FACULTY OF ARTS & COMMERCE:

BENGALI, ECONOMICS, FOLKLORE, LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, VISUAL ARTS.

B. FACULTY OF SCIENCE:

BOTANY, ECOLOGICAL STUDIES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, GEOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS, MICROBIOLOGY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY.

C. FACULTY OF EDUCATION:

EDUCATION

Important Dates: Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024

Online application starts on: 25th November, 2024.

Last date of online application: 02nd December, 2024.

Eligibility and Selection Procedure:

Selection will be made in strict compliance with the prevailing UGC regulations.
Students/applicants who have qualified UGC-NET / UGC-CSIR-NET (with valid score) are only eligible to apply.
Reservation and relaxation as per UGC/State Govt. Rules.
Student willing to apply for Ph. D. in more than one subject must fill in separate forms for each subject.
In-Service candidates have to submit No Objection Certificate from their Employer during the time of admission.

Eligibility and Allocation of Research Supervisor

Eligibility and Allocation of Research Supervisor: Eligibility criteria to be a Research Supervisor, Co-Supervisor, Number of Ph.D. scholars permissible per supervisor, etc.

Permanent faculty members working as Professor/Associate Professor of the Higher Educational Institution with a Ph.D., and at least five research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals and permanent faculty members working as Assistant Professors in Higher Educational Institutions with a Ph.D., and at least three research publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journalsor exhibitionsshall be recognized as a Research Supervisor in the university where the faculty member is employed or in its affiliated Post-graduate Colleges/institutes.

Such recognized research supervisors cannot supervise research scholars in other institutions, where they can only act as co-supervisors/joint supervisors. Ph.D. awarded by a university under the supervision of a faculty member who is not an employee of the university or its affiliated Post-graduate Colleges/institutes would be in violation of these Regulations.

Provided that in areas/disciplines where there is no, or only a limited number of peer-reviewed or refereed journals, the Higher Educational Institution may relax the above condition for recognition of a person as Research Supervisor with reasons recorded in writing.

Co-Supervisors/ joint supervisors from within the same department or other departments of the same institution or other institutions may be permitted with the approval of the competent authority.

Adjunct Faculty members shall not act as Research Supervisors and can only act as co-supervisors.

Only a full time regular teacher of the University can act as a Research Supervisor of the Ph. D. scholar admitted to the University Department. The external supervisors Uare not allowed.

The same rule shall apply to the Post-Graduate College/ Institute Teacher(s) being recognised by the University as supervisor(s) through recommendation of the concerned DRC. In such a case subject wise vacancies under the College/ Institute Teacher(s) shall be clearly mentioned in the University’s advertisement for Ph. D. admission and the applicants will be given the scope for exercising options in the prescribed application form.

In the interview/ viva voce for selection against such vacancies the designated supervisor(s) from College/ Institute as recognised shall be invited to attend the DRC meeting.In case of interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research work, if required, a Co-Supervisor/ joint supervisors from outside the Department/School/Centre/College/University may be appointed with the approval of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC)and conditions as may be specified and agreed upon by the consenting HEIs.

The allocation of Research Supervisor for a selected research scholar shall be decided by the DRC concerned depending on the number of scholars per Research Supervisor, the available specialization among the Supervisors and research interests of the scholars as indicated by them at the time of interview/viva-voce.

An eligible Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor can guide up to eight (8) / six (6) / four (4) Ph.D. scholars, respectively, at any given time. Numbers of scholars who have taken admission under a Supervisor/ co-supervisor/ joint supervisors shall be the basis for such counting.

In case of relocation of a female Ph.D. scholar due to marriage or otherwise, the research data shall be allowed to be transferred to the Higher Educational Institution to which the scholar intends to relocate, provided all the other conditions in these Regulations are followed, and the research work does not pertain to a project sanctioned to the parent Institution/Supervisor by any funding agency. Such scholar shall, however, give due credit to the parent institution and the supervisor for the part of research already undertaken.

Faculty members with less than three years of service before superannuation shall not be allowed to take new research scholars under their supervision. However, such faculty members can continue to supervise Ph.D scholars, who are already registered as per clause 2.19 above, until superannuation. The concerned faculty member may act as co-supervisor. No faculty member after attaining the age of 70 years will be allowed to act as co-supervisor

A faculty member on lien shall not be allowed to take new research scholars under their supervision. However, such faculty members can continue to supervise Ph.D. scholars who are already registered prior to begining of his/her lien period. If he/she does not come back within the end of lien period, he/she shall be co-supervisor of such scholars.

Faculty members of a Higher Education Institute, with which the University has MoU, shall be eligible to act as co-supervisors.

At any point, the total number of Ph.D. scholars under a faculty member, either as a supervisor or a co-supervisor, shall not exceed the number prescribed above.

Payment of application Fee

 Application fees are Rs. 600/- for General category/OBC-A/OBC-B and Rs. 150 /- for SC / ST category.

Selection procedure: Kalyani University PhD Admission 2024

i) Selection will be made in strict compliance with the prevailing UGC regulations and Kalyani University (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2022.

ii) Students/applicants who have qualified UGC-NET (including JRF)/ UGC-CSIR-NET (JRF)/ ICMR/ ICAR/SET/ GATE, and who have qualified in other National Fellowship are only eligible to apply.

 Reservation and relaxation as per State Govt. Rules

 Students willing to apply for PhD in more than one subject must fill in separate forms for each subject.

TIME FRAME FOR Ph. D. ADMISSION 2024

SL.NO.	DETAILS	DATE (S)
1.	Online application starts on	25th November, 2024
2.	Online application closes on	02nd December, 2024
3.	Publication of the list of eligible candidates for appearing in the interview	03rd December, 2024
4.	Interview to be completed on or before	10th December, 2024
5.	Publication of merit list for admission	13th December, 2024
6.	Date of admission	16th December, 2024 to 17th December, 2024

Number of Vacant Seats, Eligibility & Specialization

Sl.No.	Department	Vacancy	Eligibility Criteria* Candidates should be UGC-NET/UGC-CSIR-NET qualified (with valid score)	Specialization
1.	Bengali	05 (Five) 3-UR, 1-SC, 1-OB	(05) 55% marks in M.A. in Bengali	(05) Linguistics and Literary Theory
2.	Economics	04 (Four) 1-ST, 2-UR, 1-OB	(04) 55% marks in M.A./ M.Sc. in Economics	(04) Open
3.	Folklore	01 (One) 1-UR	(01) 55% marks in M.A. in any subject under the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts	(01)Open
4.	Library & Inf. Sc.	04 (Four) 2-OB, 1-SC, 1-UR	(04) As per UGC Regulations	(04) Information Retrieval Machine Learning based Indexing Test Analytics AI/ML in Bibliometrics
5.	Political Science	01 (One) 1-UR	(01) 55% marks in M.A. in Political Science	(01) Human Rights and Public Policy
6.	Philosophy	01 (One) 1-UR	(01) 55% marks in M.A. in Philosophy	(01) Logic
7.	Visual Arts	05 (Five) 3-UR, 1-SC, 1-OB	(05) As per UGC Regulations	(05) Visual Arts & Culture
8.	Botany	03 (Three) 1-ST, 1-UR, 1-OB	(1) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Botany/ Microbiology (2) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Botany or any other branch of Life Sciences. Desirable criteria: published article/review in a Plant Science related Journal indexed by Scopus or Web of Science.	(01) Plant Physiology,Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. (2) Open
9.	Ecological Studies	02 (Two) 1-UR, 1-SC	(2) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Microbiology/Molecular Biology/Biotechnology/Environmental Science/Environmental Management/Zoology/Botany/Chemistry/Allied Subjects.	(2) Open.
10.	Environmetal Science	02 (Two) 1-SC, 1-UR	(2) M.Sc. in Environmental Science and Allied Subjects with minimum 55%marks.	(2) Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, Pollution Studies.
11.	Geography	02 (Two) 1-SC, 1-UR	(02) 55% marks in M.A./M.Sc. in Geography	(02) Open
12.	Mathematics	06 (Six) 2-OB, 3-UR, 1-SC	(06) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Mathematics	(01) Mathematical Biology.(04) Any Branch of Pure Mathematics.(01) Nonlinear PDEs.
13.	Microbiology	03 (Three) 1-SC, 2-UR	03) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Microbiology /Life sciences.	(03) Open
14.	Molecular Biology & Biotechnology	03 (Three) 1-OB, 1-SC, 1-UR	(02) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Molecular Biology& Biotechnology or M.Sc. in Botany. Desirable: Knowledge inplant tissue culture. (01)55% marks in M.Sc. in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology.	(03) Open
15.	Physiology	05 (Five) 3-UR, 1-OB,1-SC	(05) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Physiology or Allied Sciences.	(2)Open Desirable: Interested in Field Work. (01) Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology. (01) Cell Biology/Immunology/Biochemistry (01) Nutrition & Dietetics
16.	Zoology	10(Ten) 6-UR, 2-OB, 1-SC, 1-ST	(02) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology/ M.FSc/Master in Aquaculture/Fisheries Science (01) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology or Allied Subjects (01) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology (01)55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology (01) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology (02) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology (01) 55% marks in M.Sc. in life Sciences (01) 55% marks in M.Sc. in Zoology/Life Sciences/Animal Sciences/Biotech nology & Molecular Biology	(02)Open (01) Open (01) Cytogenetics / Cell Biology/ Molecular Biology/Disease Biology (01) Preferably with good knowledge of Genetics/Molecular Biology/Cell Biology/Immunobiology (02) Endocrinology (01) Open (01)Open
17.	Education	11 (Eleven) 7-UR, 2-SC, 2-OB	(13) As per UGC Regulations	(04) Teacher Education (01) Women’s Education & Capacity Building (01) Women’s Empowerment & Education. (02) Educational Psychology (03) Teaching Strategy