AICTE launches NDF programme to promote research in thrust areas
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Hyderabad: In a bid to encourage research in the key areas of science and technology, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with the National Doctoral Fellowship (NDF) programme.
According to the AICTE, the scholarships will be provided to postgraduate students who have not crossed age of the 30 years. However, those belonging to SC, ST, PwD and women candidates are provided with a five-year age relaxation.
Candidates who have completed their BE, BTech and BPharm and postgraduation in engineering and pharmacy courses with a valid GATE/GPAT scores obtained in last six years, including the GATE 2019 examinations. are eligible under the scheme.
The NDF scholarships are devised to encourage research in the thrust areas like nuclear engineering and allied technologies, robotics and mechatronics, energy efficiency, renewable and sustainable energy,
Electric and hybrid mobility, smart cities, housing and transportation, internet of things (IoT), industrial wireless sensor system (I2oT) and embedded systems, nano science and technology, big data, machine learning and AI, drug modelling and development, biomedical and rehabilitation, smart technologies for agriculture and food industry and water purification, conservation and management.
As per the technical education regulator, a total of 300 research fellows would be selected in a year to encourage the research in the above areas which have a growing impact with immense value contributing to the fields of social, industrial and economic and other sectors.
The total number of candidates selected under this scheme per year would be limited to 300 per year. Candidates would be identified by the National Nodal Centre of AICTE as per the functions and duties of National Nodal Centre.
For the current year the PSG College of Technology, Peelamedu of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is functioning as the AICTE-NDF nodal institution.In case the seats allotted to any institution remain vacant, then the same will be allotted to the other institutions by the Nodal Centre on the approval of AICTE.