Engineers Alert! Enroll yourself for Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, applications start

New Delhi, February 24: Students interested in research, gear yourself up as applications for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship. You need to follow these following steps to enroll yourself for PMRF. The fellowship is aimed at selecting the best 1000 minds across various technical fields.

 

Go to the official website of Prime Minister Research Fellowship: https://pmrf.in 

Candidates can start from tomorrow, February 24, 2018. The online application portal would be opened on pmrf.in from 10:00 am today and would be available until March 31, 2018.

Candidates are required to fill the form, provide Aadhaar card details and other documents as may be asked in the application form. Candidates can go through the details, the FAQs and other important information provided on the website. Fee payment can be done online.

The application process starts from today, which is February 24, 2018. As many as 1000 students would be selected under the scheme to receive a fellowship and admission to the 23 IITs and IISc Bangaloare along with a monthly pay of Rs. 70,000 for the first two years, Rs. 75,000 per month for the third year and Rs. 80,000 for the fourth year.

Start of Online Application: February 24, 2018 (at 10:00 am)

Close of Online applications: March 31, 2018

Tentative dates for interviews at Nodal institutions: May 15, 2018, onwards

Tentative date for announcement of results: June 1, 2018

The students who are selected for the fellowship would be offered admission will be offered admission to the PhD program in one of IITs or IISc. Apart from the remuneration mentions of Rs. 70,000 per month for the first two years, following which they would get Rs. 75,000 per month for the third year and Rs. 80,000 per month in the fourth year, each fellow would get Rs. 2.0 lakh per year for a period of 5 years to cover any academic contingency as well as expenses for international travel/ paper presentation, etc.

Eligibility:

As per the guidelines, final year students of IITs, NITs, IISERs and centrally funded IIITs are eligible to apply. The students include those who are in the four-year undergraduate or five years integrated M.Tech. or integrated M.Sc. program in the said institutes. Students of these institutes who have been awarded degrees from in the past five years are also eligible to apply.

Please note, students who have completed their bachelors from a different engineering college (not included in the list) but have completed their M.Tech from IIT or the listed institutes are NOT eligible to apply for the fellowship.

Also, candidates are required to have scored a minimum CGPA/CPI of 8.0 on a 10.0 scale. Please note, for the students in the integrated program or the dual degree program, the CGPA or CPI of UG part (first four years) will be considered.

Also candidates who fulfill the eligibility criteria are required submit their details in the application form along with a project abstract of not more than 1000 words in a PDF format. The abstract should formulate a problem of study in the correct format with the name of the candidate on the top. The candidate is required to submit an original abstract in his/her own words. This abstract would be sued to assess the applicants' analytical ability as well as research skills. Once shortlisted, the candidates would then have to appear in a GATE like single entrance test for the chosen domain followed by an interview.