Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) – Revised Guidelines
The Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) Scheme has been designed for improving the quality of research in various higher educational institutions in the country. With attractive fellowships, the scheme seeks to attract the best talent into research thereby realizing the vision of development through innovation. The scheme was announced in the Budget 2018-19.
PMRF Granting Institutions and Seat Allocation
The institutes which can offer PMRF will be:
- All IITs
- All IISERs
- IISc, and
- Central Universities/NITs offering science and/or technology degrees which appear in the list of top 25 institutes in the NIRF ranking (overall) in the previous year. We shall refer to these institutions as “PMRF Granting Institutions”. Each PMRF granting institute is allotted PMRF seats every year according to the following rule:
- A PMRF Granting Institute appearing in top 10 NIRF ranking (overall) gets 3.5% of the existing PhD students strength on 1st May of the respective year as PMRF seats,
- A PMRF Granting Institute appearing in top 11-25 positions in the NIRF ranking (overall) gets 2.5% of the existing PhD students strength on 1st May of the respective year as PMRF seats, and
- Remaining PMRF Granting Institutes get 1.5% of the existing PhD student strength on 1st May of the respective year as PMRF seats. In case the total PMRF seat requirement for a particular year exceeds 1000, the above percentages will be scaled down proportionately so that the total seat requirement does
not exceed 1000.
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