UGC to disburse funds for Junior, Senior Research Fellows without institutes' confirmation
The higher education regulator, in the statement, said that to facilitate the release of scholarship amount, it has been releasing various grants on a monthly basis, instead of quarterly.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced that it will disburse the funds for Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellows without insisting on monthly confirmation from their respective institutions for the eligible research scholars. The UGC in a statement also confirmed that the November payments are being processed now and the pending fellowship amounts till October 2020 have been released.
The higher education regulator, in the statement, said that to facilitate the release of scholarship amount, it has been releasing various grants on a monthly basis, instead of quarterly. Earlier research fellowships were disbursed on a quarterly basis but considering the financial needs of research scholars, the system of monthly payment was introduced and it is being released through direct benefit transfer (DBT) mode which credits the fellowship amount directly to the bank accounts of research scholars.
“Keeping in view the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to generate the monthly payments even for those research scholars whose monthly confirmation of data could not be uploaded by their institutions on the Canara Bank Portal. Hence, since April 2020, payments are being generated without insisting on the requirements of monthly confirmations from institutions, for all eligible research scholars…,” read a UGC statement.
Earlier, UGC had also announced its decision to extend the deadline for submission of PhD, MPhil theses until June 30, 2021. According to the reports, the decision to extend the deadline is made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier, the last date to submit PhD and MPhil theses was December 31, 2020.
Read the official notification here
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