Note: Universities and Autonomous College in Orissa including Govt. Autonomous College Bhawanipatna and Sambalpur University should take advantage of it.
Times of India, May 17, 2010
PATNA: Science teaching and research in Patna University (PU) colleges and postgraduate departments is likely to get a boost soon, thanks to the benevolence of the department of science and technology (DST), government of India.
The DST has agreed to sanction handsome grants to science departments of different colleges and universities for strengthening their infrastructure, including laboratories.
A high-level team of DST, led by its secretary, visited Bihar recently and interacted with the vice-chancellors and other senior officials of all the universities in the state in this connection.
The team advised the universities to assess their requirements properly and submit the same to the DST. The team also announced that a Task Force headed by Hyderabad-based Central University VC S Hasnain will be visiting different universities of the state soon to make an on-the-spot assessment of their requirements. As proposed, as many as 60 selected colleges of the state would be getting Rs 50 lakh each and each university would be getting Rs 1.5 crore for strengthening their science departments. The objective behind this out of turn funding by DST is to accelerate research activities in science departments.
PU vice-chancellor Shyam Lal has directed the principals of colleges and heads of science departments to prepare a comprehensive plan for the development and augmentation of their science laboratories so that the same could be submitted to the Task Force during its visit. The departments must justify the requirements of equipment needed for their labs. A meeting of the principals and heads was held under the chairmanship of the VC here on Saturday to discuss the issue in detail. PU science faculty dean Arun Kumar Sinha also attended.
DST advisor Arvind Mitra told TOI that the state universities must take maximum benefits of various schemes of the DST. There is no dearth of funds for research activities. A single science department may get funds up to Rs five crore for strengthening research activities. Besides, the DST has also launched a number of schemes with a view to attracting talents to higher education and research in science subjects.
Postgraduate students can get scholarship up to Rs 1 lakh and the postgraduate toppers are getting fellowship for carrying out research. As many as 50 research scholars would be sent to the US for a period ranging between one and three months for studying in American universities, Mitra added.
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This sounds great that DST has agreed to sanction handsome grants to science departments of different colleges and universities for strengthening their infrastructure.
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