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For several weeks, scientists have focused on a number of central and state universities and scientific disciplines throughout India, India in the Ministry of Science and Technology (DST) for their research scholarships.
The forum for their complaints is primarily X and LinkedIn and their main corneration is a delay – between eight months and 13 months – for their scholarship funds. Some quoted the mental agony that there were no Penniless plus the lack of sensitivity, which is under the Ministry of Science and Technology, some openly express “regret” in the selection of scientific research in India.
“Early payouts is a dream. For some, it took more than a year without any scholarship. Worse, when we reach out for help, our e -Malys are unanswered. The answers to the line help as if we beg – we do not give up what we rightly owe. Laborators in the laboratory in the plasma and nano-materials at the University of Savitrabai Phuule, Pune, LinkedIn.
“No Money to Rent”
Another Scholar, Affiliated to the Sam University But Who Declined to Be Identified, Told the Hindu That She Hadn’t Received Her Scholarship Money Since 2024. ”I HAVE MONEY FOR RENT ONLY FOR ANOTHER MONTH or SO. Cleared The Vere Challenging Requirements to Be a dst-inspire scholar in the first place, to the Research and then See My Contemporaries Who Have Pursumed Engineering Jobs Earn Dependable Salaries, ”She Told the Hindu.
A scholarship for research workers from a minority environment faces a four -month delay
Doctoral students will award several scholarships (UGC) to the doctoral council for scientific and industrial research (CSIR). Scientists and researchers say that a three- or four-month delay in paying money is common and taken into account the annual planning of the average scientific scientific scientific scientific. Until 2022, inspirational scholarships offered by DST were largely followed by this regime. However, two significant changes have reportedly impaired the Payout Crisis in DST – by the way the largest source of research funds for civil research in India.
The first was in September 2022, when within the Directive of the Ministry of Finance, it made the funds spent by the central government, recipients of DST funds (grants to research and scholarships) at institutional level (universities, research institutions, etc.) had to open “zero rolling accounts” with Mahashtra. Thus, all unused funds with universities had to be redirected to these new bank accounts. Hind learned that the technological architecture that runs the fund’s flow did not work well.
Then, in December 2024, all institutions were obliged to open new “zero balance” with Indian Union Bank as part of a new initiative called “Hybrid-TSA”, with systems worth over 1,000 CRORE required a new set of accounting procedures. The net result was that all work performed in creating new accounts and verifying the account balances had to be duplicated, postponing the payment and caused by the unusual items.
The new process also brought scholarships due to researchers in the same category as the funds for the purchase of equipment and research. This usually includes a detailed and time -consuming evaluation process. “Maintaining scholarships/ scholarships in the same category seems illogical. Imagine that the same scientists or officials at the Treasury are asked to work for nine months, then all their salaries at once. They will be in their arms,” PhD said with the best rated Indian Institute to Hindu technology.
“Problems solved”
Hind addressed DST with a detailed questionnaire, but did not receive the answer until the press. When he was contacted, the secretary of DST Abhay Karandikar did not explain the justification of changes in processes and reasons for delay. He said he was “aware” of the payout crisis, but said that from June 2025 all scholars would get their money in time. “All the problems have been solved. I am not foreseen in the future.”
It was assumed that Inspire’s scholarships, which began in 2008, ensured that students with the ability and talent for basic sciences were financially motivated to scientists in basic sciences than an instantly lucrative career in information technology, engineering and finance. Every year, scholarships make approximately 1,000 applicants for doctoral doctoral doctoral studies.
The basic criteria for Inspire Fellowship is that the candidate should either hold the first rank in engineering, sciences or applied sciences at the postgraduate level, or be an “inspire scholar” with a 70% aggregated score through graduation and postgraduate study. “Inspire Scholar” is someone who was in the best 1% of students in class XII and 10,000 artists in Iit-Jee and other national tests. The screening committee will then select doctoral candidates based on their research proposals.
Published – May 24, 2025 03:40
