Department of Bio-technology (DBT) Scholarships in the field of biosciences and biotechnology

In addition a fellowship of Rs. 75,000/- per month will be admissible for awardees that do not have regular employment or are not drawing any other fellowship. If during the course of the project, the awardee finds a regular employment or receives any other fellowship, the awardee should immediately inform the fact to the DBT and the monthly payment of fellowship from the subsequent month onward will be discontinued. In this situation the awardees will receive Rs. 1.00 lakh cash award per annum similar to the awardees those are in regular employment. Awardees having a regular employment will receive a cash award of Rs. 1.00 lakh every year during the course of the project in addition to the equipment and other recurring grants except the fellowship amount.

2. The applications will first be screened for all prescribed mandatory requirements described in Paragraph 2. Applications without the mandatory requirements will be rejected.

3. All such applications that meet these mandatory requirements will have the proposed research project peer reviewed for innovative thinking as well as scientific originality and merit.

4. Projects that are recommended after this peer review will be shortlisted and such applicants will be invited for making a scientific presentation. Each candidate will be given 20 minutes to make the presentation before the expert committee. Based on scientific merit, the expert committee may recommend up to a maximum of 15 such applications for the IYBA.

ii) For Senior Category Award: Citizens of India should have made life time significant and outstanding contribution in research in the areas of biosciences/biotechnology and has applied the results for the benefit of students and society and the work must have been done entirely in India.

iii) For Young Category Award: Citizens of India should have made significant and outstanding contribution in the areas of biosciences/biotechnology during last 5 years and the work must have been done entirely in India. iv) The senior category award is for excellence in research (and not for governance/promotion of Science) and not for age and thus there is no age limit. For the young category, the candidate should be below 45 years of age as on the 31st December of the year of Award.

The Award carries a cash prize of Rs 5.00 lakh along with citation and a gold medal.

ii) He/She should have made significant and outstanding contribution in the areas of biosciences/biotechnology during last 5 years and the work must have been done entirely in India. The work for which nomination is made must have been carried out in India.

iii) He/She should submit a research project for advancement of his/her work in India for a period of next 3 years.

iv) He/she should be below the age of 45 years as on 31st December of the year of award.

The details of the Award, eligibility criteria and proforma for Nomination is available on the website.

The nominations (10 copies) neatly typed in double space on plain paper in the prescribed proforma complete with enclosures should be sent ( a copy to be emailed) at the following address.