The ICSSR will follow the ceiling imposed by the UGC on number of doctoral supervisions under a particular category of guide (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor).
The Fellow / Fellows must stay and work full time at IPE, every day during the tenure of the Fellowship. However, they may go on field work with the express approval of the Director but for rest of the period, they must continue to work at the Institute and follow their rules.
The Fellow shall not accept or hold any appointment, paid or otherwise, or receive any emoluments, salary, stipend, etc. from any other source during the tenure of the Fellowship.
The Fellow shall not, without the prior permission of the Institute, join any other regular course of study.
In case a Fellow wishes to leave the fellowship before the end of the tenure, he/she shall obtain prior approval of the IPE/ICSSR. Application to the effect shall be submitted through the supervisor one month in advance of discontinuance of the fellowship indicating specific reasons for same;
The tenure of fellowship is strictly for two years. Any extension can be granted under exceptional circumstances without any additional financial implications to ICSSR. The ICSSR reserves the right to determine exceptional circumstances.
The contingency grant may be utilized for books, stationery, computer consumable costs and field work expenses related to the research work.
The ICSSR reserves the first right to publish the Ph.D. thesis funded by it, provided the work is recommended for publication by the ICSSR expert(s).
The scholar shall prominently acknowledge IPE and ICSSR’s support in all publications resulting from the research output of the fellowship and should submit a copy of the same to IPE and ICSSR during the fellowship and even after its completion.
Defaulters of any previous ICSSR fellowship/project/grant will not be eligible for consideration until the applicant obtains the clearance from the concerned administrative division.
A fellow is not entitled for same type of fellowship more than once.
The selected fellows are expected to do full-time research in India. They could, however, undertake data collection outside India in exceptional cases, if warranted by the needs of the proposal. For this, they are required to apply separately for consideration under the Data Collection Scheme of the International Collaboration Division of ICSSR and the decision of the ICSSR in this regard will be final. ICSSR will not be bound to support data collection from abroad and in no way, the completion of study should be consequent upon that.
The scholar should not have been subjected to any disciplinary / legal action / proceedings/ financial penalties in his/her research career.
Books/periodicals/equipment purchased by the scholar out of the contingency grant should be deposited with the administering institution and a certificate to this effect be submitted along with the final report.
ICSSR reserves the right to reject any application without assigning any reason. It is also not responsible for any postal delay/loss.
Incomplete applications in any respect shall not be considered for fellowship.
The final authority for the interpretation of the guidelines or any such issue is vested with the ICSSR.
No queries will be entertained by the ICSSR secretariat until the final declaration of results which will be placed on ICSSR website.
The Fellow shall submit six monthly reports on his/her work in the prescribed form duly forwarded by the supervisor.
The final output of every Research Fellow shall be a) Publication of atleast two research papers in reputed journals, and b) submission of thesis and award of the Degree of Ph.D.