Promotion of women education is one of the main objective of UGC’s education policy. Swami Vivekananda’s ideas of women education and promote girls education, UGC has introduced Swami Vivekananda Scholarship for Single Girl Child for research in Social Sciences with an aim to compensate direct costs of higher education especially for such girls who happen to be the only girl child in their family.
Eligibility:
i) Any single girl child of her parents.
ii) Only girl child in the family without having any brother or the girl student who are twin daughters/ fraternal daughter may also apply for scholarship under the aforesaid scheme.
iii) In a family if one son and one daughter is available then girl child will not be considered for scholarship under the scheme.
iv)The scheme is applicable to such a single girl child who has taken admission in regular, full -time Ph. D. program in Social Sciences in any recognized University/Institute. Admission to Ph.D. Course in Distance education mode is not covered under the scheme.
Age : Girl students up to the age of 40 years for general and 45 years for the reserved category SC/ST/OBC and Physical handicapped at the time of admission in Ph.D courses are eligible.
Amount of Scholarship :
a) Rs.8,000/- p.m for first two years
b) Rs.10,000/- p.m for third and fourth year (Extendable for fifth year in exceptional circumstances)
Last Date : 31-11-2014
Only Online application is acceptable for the fellowship .
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