Results of the Doctoral Fellowships 2023-2024

Results of the Doctoral Fellowships 2023-2024. Announcement of Results of the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowships 2023-24.

The Indian Council of Social Science Research had invited online applications for award of its Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowships for the Financial Year 2023-24 under the following schemes:

1. Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme (two years)

2. Short-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme (six months)

3. Contingency Grant Scheme (one-time consolidated grant).

Results of the Doctoral Fellowships 2023-2024

In addition, the ICSSR grant-in-aid Research Institutes had also invited applications for the ICSSR Institutional Doctoral Fellowships.

The last date of online application was 31-10-2023 and last date for receipt of hard copy of applications in the ICSSR was 10-11-2023.

The lists of the provisionally recommended awardees on the basis of information provided in the application forms for the four schemes under the General, OBC (NCL), EWS, SC and ST categories is being published which can be accessed on Annexure I, Annexure II, Annexure III and Annexure IV.

Candidates who had applied in reserved categories (i.e. EWS, OBC (NCL), SC, ST & PwD) and were awarded marks above the cut-off of unreserved category of their respective disciplines during evaluation by the expert committees, have been duly placed in the list of General Category as per Government of India rules.

The provisional awardees of the three schemes of the Centrally-Administered Doctoral Fellowships shall be sent intimation letters through email and their affiliating institutions shall be informed by post.

The information regarding provisional award of the Institutional Fellowships shall be sent directly to the concerned ICSSR research institutes. The institutes shall, in turn, send the Intimation letters to their selected scholars.

Results of the Doctoral Fellowships 2023-2024

The provisional award of fellowships will be subject to timely submission of scanned copy of requisite documents on the email [email protected] within seven days of publication of result on the ICSSR website.

The formats of requisite documents apart from university certificates to be submitted within the stipulated timeline is available below. The hard copy of the documents may be sent immediately by speed post as well.

The terms and conditions of the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship shall also be as per the Guidelines on the ICSSR website. The result is completely provisional and it has been prepared on the basis of information provided in the application forms of candidates.

Any false/ suppression of information by the applicants detected at any stage will lead to cancellation of the award of fellowship and suitable action will be initiated against such candidates.

The eligibility and other conditions will be calculated strictly on the basis documents/ notifications issued till the last date of submission of online applications, i.e. 31-10-2023.

In order to join the ICSSR Fellowship, the awardee needs to agree with these terms and conditions and submit the following documents, duly forwarded through the competent authority of the affiliating university / institute / college within seven days of the publication of the result:

Joining Report as per the format (annexure 5)
Undertaking (on non-judicial stamp paper of Rs.100) as per the format (annexure 6)
Grant-in-aid bill/Pre-receipt bill (annexure 7)
A certificate in proforma provided certifying that the confirmation of PhD topic was done by the competent statutory body of the university/ institute before last date of submission of online forms, i.e. 31-10-2023 and the same was submitted by the candidate at the time of application (annexure 8)
A copy of valid/updated Caste / Disability Certificate in case of EWS, OBC (NCL)/ SC/ST and Persons with Disability, duly self-attested.
Scanned copies of Graduation and Post-Graduation Marksheets together with university approved CGPA to percentage conversion formula.
PFMS mandate form for the concerned university for disbursal of fellowship instalment. (annex 9)

After receipt and acceptance of these documents by ICSSR, a formal Sanction Order for the Doctoral Fellowship grant will be issued and subsequently the fellowship grant shall be transferred through PFMS to the concerned affiliating institution.

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