12 Jamia Millia Islamia research scholars awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship
Vagisha Kaushik | October 26, 2022 | 05:32 PM IST | 2 mins read
The students will get a fellowship of Rs 70,000 for the first two years, Rs 75,000 for third year, Rs 80,000 for the fourth and fifth year.
NEW DELHI : 12 research scholars of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) have been selected for the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMFI) under the Lateral Entry Scheme of the May 2022 drive. Last year, six research scholars were selected for the PMRF under the Lateral Entry Scheme of the December 2020 drive.
Names of students, their recommender and department or centres selected for PMRF under the Lateral Entry Scheme of the May 2022 drive are:
1. Nadeem Ahmad recommended by Professor Quamrul Hasan - Civil Engineering
2. Mohammad Ariz recommended by Professor Tarikul Islam - Electrical Engineering
3. Mohammad Masood recommended by Professor Mohammad Mahfuzul Haque – Biotechnology
4. Gulnaz Tabassum recommended by Dr Kapil Dev - Biotechnology
5. Ayesha Aiman recommended by Professor Seemi Farhat Basir - Biosciences
6. Sakeena Masrat recommended by Dr Rafiq Ahmad – CNN
7. Mudasir Younis Sofi recommended by Dr Mohd Ajmal Khan – Physics
8. Shah Masheerul Alam recommended by Dr Javed Ali – Physics
9. Shelly Bhardwaj recommended by Dr Amit Kumar – Chemistry
10. Sneha Shukla recommended by Professor Saif A Chaudhry – Chemistry
11. Abdus Samad recommended by Dr Shama Parveen – CIRBSc
12. Nuha Abeer Khan recommended by Dr Mohan C Joshi - MCARS
JMI Vice Chancellor Professor Najma Akhtar congratulated PMRF Coordinator, JMI professor Abdul Quaiyum Ansari and praised his efforts for the achievement.
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While conveying her best wishes to the successful candidates, Akhtar said “JMI stands for excellence and strives hard to provide its students every possible support to achieve great heights. This performance reflects the university's focus on high quality research and I am particularly happy that six out of the twelve students are girls. I hope that it would inspire other students, particularly girl students of the university to do well in science and engineering research”.
Ansari informed that these researchers would be individually getting a fellowship of Rs 70,000 for the first two years, Rs 75,000 for third year, Rs 80,000 for the fourth and fifth year respectively. Apart from this, each fellow would be getting a research grant of Rs 2 lakh per year (a total of Rs 10 lakhs for five years) under the PMRF.
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