A file photo of IIT Kharagpur. The monthly fellowship will be given for a period of five years, said an official. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/MintKolkata: The Centre will provide Rs70,000 as monthly fellowship to those researchers doing their PhDs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) or Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Union higher education secretary Kewal Kumar Sharma has said. Presently researcher-students get Rs25,000 as monthly scholarship at IITs. “We will provide 2,000 such monthly fellowships across the IIT system and IISc Bengaluru,” Sharma said at the 67th Foundation Day of IIT Kharagpur at its Kharagpur campus in West Midnapore district on Friday.

Source: Mint August 19, 2017 11:37 UTC