Applications Invited for ICAR Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020

About the Organization:

ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), commonly known as the Pusa Institute, is India's national Institute for agricultural research, education and extension. The institute carries basic, strategic and anticipatory research in field and horticultural crops for enhanced productivity and quality, research in frontier areas to develop resource use efficient integrated crop management technologies for sustainable agricultural production system and serves as centre for academic excellence in the areas of post-graduate and human resources development in agricultural science.

Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2020

The ICAR Post- Doctoral Fellowship (ICAR-PDF) is a new programme approved under the ongoing ‘Strengthening and Development of Higher Agricultural Education in India’ Scheme of Agricultural Education Division (ICAR) to support the bright and talented researchers to pursue Post- Doctoral programme to build capacity in frontier areas of national interest in Agriculture and Allied Sciences.

Objectives

• Identify and support motivated young researchers for conducting research in frontier areas of agriculture and allied sciences to build the national capacity.
• Provide them a platform to develop as an independent researcher capable of initiating a new programme in nationally important priority areas under the supervision of a mentor.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant should be an Indian citizen.
• The candidate must have obtained Ph.D. degree (with course work) from a recognized University and should be working (in service) in an institution under ICAR-AU System.
• He/she should have completed minimum three years of service (including clearance of probation) in regular capacity as a Scientist or equivalent in ICAR-AUs system working in any area of Teaching/Research/Extension.
• The upper age limit for the fellowship is 40 years on the last date of submission of application. Age relaxation of five years will be given to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Physically Challenged and Women candidates.
• ICAR-PDF can be availed only once by a candidate in his/her career.
• The selected fellows are not allowed to work with their Ph.D. guides/Co-guides.
• Mentor must hold a regular academic/research position in concerned ICAR-DU having a Ph.D. degree and should be a faculty member.
• The mentor must have a minimum of 10 years of service experience in the relevant area of work with the experience of guiding minimum of 2 Ph. D. students.
• A Mentor shall not have more than two ICAR-PDF fellows at any given time.
• The candidates of ICAR-DUs are not eligible to apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the same ICAR-DU.

Duration: The fellowship is purely a temporary assignment and is tenable for a period of one year

Number of Fellowships: Ten per year for ICAR-IARI Pusa, New Delhi and five each per year for ICAR-IVRI Izatnagar, ICAR-NDRI Karnal & ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai respectively.

Amount: The Fellowship would be Rs. 75,000/- per month (consolidated) and a Research Grant of Rs. 2,00,000/-

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