• All faculties, post graduate and under graduate students are eligible for intramural funding as mentioned in ‘Research scholarship’.
• In case of collaborative studies (inter/ intra / multi centric) appropriate justification should be provided.

Grants Disbursal

• The maximum permissible intramural funding is as per the ‘Research scholarship’. In…. the possibility of additional funding for projects of greater merit.
• Faculty can pool their entitled individual funding entitlements for a meritorious project.
• The funding does not support of equipment purchase, hiring research staff (only if appropriate), conference registration and publication.
• Budgetary requirements with justification should be submitted
• All expenses will be subjected to internal audit as per the institute rules.
• Grants will be disbursed in three installments:50 % after approval, remaining 30 % of after submission of the final report and the final 20 % after the project is published in peer reviewed and indexed journal (such as Medline, Pubmed, Scopus, web of science , UGC care).

Processing of Grant Application

• Applications after the approval from research committee with special request for grant may be re-submitted to the office of the Dean (Research) at any time during the year.
• The committee evaluate the grant request and initiates recommendation, for approval, which are then forwarded to the Director / Dean for final approval.
• The final approval is contingent on submission of an ethics committee approval letter.

Applicant Responsibilities

• The applicant must submit the half yearly progress report to the office of Dean (Research).
• The applicant must complete the project [within the stipulated time duration mentioned in the application] and a final report must be submitted.
• The publications resulting from intramural funding should be acknowledged, the source of funding.
• If the applicant is not able to complete the project, the approved grant shall be returned to the Dean (Research) with justification.