DBT-JRF: Course Overview

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Virendra Singh

Applications are invited from bonafide Indian citizens, residing in India for the award of”DBT-Junior Research Fellowship”(DBT-JRF) for pursuing research in frontier areas of Biotechnology and Life Sciences. The candidates will be selected through “Biotechnology Eligibility Test(BET)”.Based on performance in BET, two categories of merit list will be prepared (Category-l and Category-ll). The government of India norms for reservation will be followed for selection. Candidates selected under category-l will be eligible to avail fellowship under the programme. These will be tenable in any University/Institute in India where the selected candidate registers for Ph.D.programme. Candidates selected under Category-ll will be eligible to be appointed in any DBT sponsored project and avail fellowship from the project equivalent to NET/GATE, subject to selection through an institutional selection process. There will be no binding on Principal Investigators of DBT sponsored projects to select JRF for their project from the category-ll list. Selection in category-ll will not entitle a student for any fellowship from DBT-JRF programme.