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What is the News?
The Department of Science & Technology (DST) has selected 17 scientists for the Swarna Jayanti fellowship.
What is the Swarna Jayanti fellowship?
Swarna Jayanti Fellowships scheme was instituted by the Government of India to commemorate India’s fiftieth year of Independence (1997).
Under the scheme, a selected number of young scientists are provided special assistance and support to enable them to pursue basic research in frontier areas of science and technology.
Duration: For a period not exceeding five years.
Scientists selected for the fellowship will be allowed to pursue unfettered research with freedom and flexibility in terms of expenditure as approved in the research plan.
The project should contain innovative research ideas, and it should have the potential of making an impact on R&D in the discipline. The fellowships are scientist specific and not institution-specific, very selective and have close academic monitoring.
Nature of Support
The award consists of a Fellowship of Rs 25000/- per month in addition to the salary drawn from the parent Institute for a period of 5 years.
The fellows selected along with their projects will be considered for funding by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB).
Source: This post is based on the article “DST selects 2020 Swarna Jayanti Fellows” published in PIB on 9th November 2021.
