The Odisha government has increased the seed funding amount from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7 lakh for faculty members for doing research. The Odisha State Council of Higher Education (OSHEC) increased the seed funding amount after reviewing the requests of the researchers and considering their petition.
The state government is providing seed funding to young faculty members under its Odisha University Research and Innovation Incentive Plan (OURIIP). Funding is provided to help selected researchers carry out quality research work. According to the report of The Times of India, earlier this amount was Rs 5 lakh and now the government has increased it by Rs 2 lakh.
Any faculty member below the age of 45 years can apply for seed funding under the scheme. The person should have a PhD degree and should have worked as a regular faculty in a state’s public university and college, both government and aided, under the Department of Skill Development and Technical Education or the Department of Higher Education. In addition, a suitable research proposal is also needed.
Once faculty are selected for seed funding, they are expected to produce approximately two research publications per year, at least one of which is published in top indexed journals. In addition, faculty will also be expected to engage in funded research projects of national agencies at the end of the two-year period.
OSHCE invites applications from youth faculties of various colleges and state public universities to conduct research by seeking seed funding from the state government. Every year 40 faculty members will get funding opportunity.
Interested candidates may send their research proposals to HED’s website dheodisha.gov.in and OSHEC’s website oshec.nic.in. The seed funding scheme would expect the relevant faculty to produce approximately two research publications (at least one in Scopus indexed journals) per year. They will also be expected to write and secure funded research projects from national agencies at the end of the two-year period of seed funding.
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