Scheme of Financial Support for Major and Minor Research Projects (IXth Plan, 2000)

Abstract

The University Grants Commission will provide support to permanent/ regular, working/retired teachers in the Universities and Colleges (Under Section 2(f) & 12 (b) of UGC Act, 1956 to enable them to take up work on intensive and in-depth study in specific subject areas. Colleges and Universities sponsoring the proposal should have adequate research facilities. Research project may be undertaken by an individual teacher or a group of teachers or by a department as a whole. The Commission would give priority to research interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative research.