Mukherjee Fellowship 2024: Benefits, Key Dates, Check Eligibility

Hello friends, today I will share information with you about a new fellowship. Named Mukherjee Fellowship This fellowship is named after our beloved Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. This fellowship is open to CSIR-UGC JRF (NET). Under the Mukherjee Fellowship program, the Authority will provide research facilities in the field of scientific research. If you are interested to know more about this fellowship program, then read our article till the end. We hope that all the points will be clear to you after reading the article to the end.

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Mukherjee Fellowship 2024

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship was launched on the occasion of his birth anniversary. A maximum of 10 SPM fellowships will be awarded in chemical sciences and life sciences and 5 SPM fellowships each in financial, mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. Applicants from the fellowship will get a stipend of 36 thousand rupees per month after being selected. With which they will be able to cover all the expenses of the research.

Object Mukherjee Fellowship

The main objective of awarding Mukherjee Fellowship 2024 is to nurture budding scientific talent and foster scientific research. We will discuss with you all the information about the fellowship, like eligibility criteria, important dates, selection process, benefits, and duration, in this article.

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Benefits Under Mukherjee Fellowship 2024

Stipend: Rs.36000/- + HRA per month during the first two years of the fellowship and a Contingency grant of Rs.70000/- p.a. May be raised to Rs.42000/- + HRA per month from the third year onwards based on assessment through interview. May be reverted to JRF (NET) if performance is not found satisfactory.

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Mukherjee Fellowship 2024: Key Dates

The application process for this fellowship will start probably in the middle of July

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship: Eligibility Criteria 

A maximum of 10 SPM Fellowships, each in Chemical Sciences and Life Sciences, and 5 each in Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, will be awarded through interview mode from NET held in December 2014.

• Category-wise number of candidates to be called for an interview is based on reservation policy, i.e. 27% for OBC, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and 3% for PWD.
•  The top 14 candidates, each in Chemical and Life Sciences and 7 candidates, each in Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences in an unreserved category, will be taken from the combined merit list of General/OBC/SC/ST/PWD. 
•  The top 8 candidates, each in Chemical and Life Sciences and 4 candidates, each in Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, will be taken from the OBC category. A maximum relaxation of 5% of the cut-off of the 14th/7th candidates of an unreserved category will be given to OBC candidates subject to a short listing of a maximum of 8/4 candidates for interview in the respective subject.
•  The top 5 candidates, each in Chemical and Life Sciences and 2 candidates, each in Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, will be taken from the SC category. A maximum relaxation of 10% of the cut-off of the 14th/7th candidates of an unreserved category will be given to SC candidates subject to a short listing of a maximum of 5/2 candidates for interview in the respective subject.
•  The top 2 candidates, each in Chemical and Life Sciences and 1 candidate, each in Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, will be taken from the ST category. A maximum relaxation of 10% of the cut-off of the 14th/7th candidates of an unreserved category will be given to ST candidates subject to a short listing of a maximum of 2/1 candidates for interview in the respective subject.
•  The top 1 candidate in Chemical and Life Sciences Earth, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences will be taken from the PWD category. A maximum relaxation of 10% of the cut-off of the 14th/7th candidates of an unreserved category will be given to PWD candidates.

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SPM Fellowship: Duration

Initially for 2 years. Extendable by following the regular rules for the CSIR JRF (NET) scheme. The SPM Fellowship will have a maximum term of 5 years.

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Selection Process 

Shyma Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowships will be awarded after an interview process. 

Contact Information

Career Enquiries:-

[email protected]

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