Special interactive session of post-doctoral fellows of PU held

Chandigarh, August 4, 2019: A special interactive session of Post-Doctoral Fellows (PDFs) of Panjab University, Chandigarh was held today with Ajay Gupta, Director (Research), ICSSR, New Delhi.

Ajay Gupta discussed and highlighted various schemes of ICSSR where several grants worth lacs are available to faculty members and research scholars of universities.

A presentation given by Sh. Gupta revealed that the rejection rate of Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Doctoral Fellowships and other national Fellowships offered by ICSSR is very high because the emphasis is on approving high quality research work by the body.

"Our aim is that more and more researchers and teaching faculty can make use of the grants and schemes offered by ICSSR. There are new schemes and projects that can be applied for and our website is extremely friendly," said Gupta.

The Dean of University Instructions (DUI) and officiating Vice Chancellor, Prof. Shankarji Jha, Dean of Student Welfare (DSW) Prof Emanual Nahar were present at the occasion.

"I am immensely happy to see that the PDF forum in PU is doing great work and organising constructive activities for welfare of all researchers," said Prof. Emanuel.

Seminar Convenor Dr. Pulakes Purkait, Department of Anthropology thanked the PDFs and University officials for supporting the activities of forum.

Other Professors present at the seminar included Prof. Devinder Singh, Prof. Sanjay Kaushik, Prof. Sanjeev Sharma and Dr. Prabhdip Brar.

The session was attended by PDFs, PhDs and other students of PU campus and was organised by PDF Academic Forum and UIFT.