Other Doctoral Fellowships
 
The Council also has three other schemes to assist doctoral scholars:

Doctoral Fellowships for Foreign Nationals
Foreign nationals doing their Ph.D. in social sciences in an Indian university on a theme with an exclusive focus either on India; India and their own country; or India and any other country are eligible to apply. The fellowships are awarded to the candidates on evaluation of their proposals by the experts and on obtaining a clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Other conditions as listed under Doctoral Fellowships are applicable to the awardees under this scheme also.
  

Short-term Doctoral Fellowships
Doctoral scholars having two years of their Ph.D. registration within 4 years and not in receipt of any assistance from any other source or in receipt of a small fellowship from other agencies are eligible to apply. The fellowships are awarded on evaluation of the proposal by experts. The maximum duration of this fellowship is six months. The salary and allowances of an employed scholar are protected. Under unemployed category those who have cleared M.Phil/National Eligibility Test (NET) of UGC/CSIR are given a fellowship of Rs.6,000/- p.m. and those who do not possess M.Phil/NET qualification get Rs.5,000/- p.m. A proportionate contingency grant of Rs. 12,000/- per annum is also provided to both employed and unemployed scholars.

  

Contingency Grant
Doctoral scholars in social sciences, not in receipt of any assistance, are eligible to apply to meet the expenses relating to fieldwork, computer analysis, printing of questionnaires, cartographic work and purchase of books and journals, etc. A small grant, not exceeding Rs.12,000/-, will be sanctioned depending upon the merit of each case.
An application form for both Short-term Fellowship and Contingency Grant is  given at Annexure VI. Interested candidates may send the application form with relevant enclosures at any time of the year.
 
General Conditions
1. All fellowships are subject to Income Tax Deductions which the affiliating institution will be required to do.
2. The fellows under all the categories of fellowships shall engage themselves on their research on a whole time basis and shall not accept any other assignment (with or without payment) without the prior permission of the ICSSR during the period of fellowship.
3. Any other matter related to all categories of fellowships shall be decided by the ICSSR on the merits of each case and the decision so taken shall be binding on the part of the scholar.