Last Date:27 Dec,2019
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
Delhi
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is looking for experienced Indian Nationals for the recruitment to 10 contractual positions of Senior Academic Fellowships.Send applications to given address on or before the last date of 27-12-2019 . Incomplete application forms or applications received without documents or application received after the prescribed date shall not be entertained.
Employment Notification 10 Senior Academic Fellowships Vacancy – ICHR,Delhi
JOB DETAILS:
Name of the post – Senior Academic Fellowships
No of post – 10
Pay Scale – Rs 44000
Educational Qualification:
M.Sc.
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General Condition:
- Applications are invited from eligible candidates in the prescribed form, which has to reach to the undersigned through email and registered postal service on or before 27.12.2019 for the award of Senior Academic Fellowships (SAF). The value of fellowship is Rs. 44000/- per month with a contingency grant of Rs. 44000/- per annum for a period of two years.
- The maximum number of Fellowships available for the year 2020-2021 are 10 (ten) only, applying the usual reservation for SC, ST& PWD.
- The Fellowship shall be a whole-time engagement for research work and cannot be combined with any other whole-time or part-time work (for details see Terms and Conditions in the ICHR Research Funding Rules (RFR) booklet, Chapter-II, ‘Fellowships’ that is available on our official website i.e. www.ichr.ac.in
- The period of the Fellowship shall be for Two years maximum.
- The award of SAF will be through presentation-cum-interview.
- The candidates who are selected to make presentation or appear for interviews will be reimbursed their travel charges to the extent of 3AC railway fare chargeable by the shortest routes from railway station nearest to their normal place of residence or from where they actually perform the journey on production of ticket(s).
- Application form can be downloaded from the website of the ICHR: www.ichr.ac.in
- Hard copy should be submitted to the Member Secretary and the electronic copy should be emailed on, ichr.saf@gmail.com by 27.12.2019
- to fix criteria for screening the applications so as to shortlist candidates to be called for presentation;
- to increase/decrease the number of Fellowship on its own discretion.
- not to award any of the advertised fellowships.
- Application of Reservation rules in the award of Fellowships is subject to certain clarifications to be received from the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.
- In the Application form the section for categories is for Administrative purposes (e.g. preparation of statistical data).
- Incomplete applications as well as applications received after the prescribed date will not be considered.
Selection Process:
Vacancy Notice 10 Senior Academic Fellowships Vacancy – ICHR,Delhi
- On the basis of the experts’ assessment (if recommended), shortlisted candidates shall be required to make a presentation on their proposed subject of research.
- The award of the Fellowship will be decided by a Committee of subject experts, on the basis of the experts’ evaluation of the proposal and the presentation made by the candidate.
- The presentation-cum-interview will be held at the ICHR’s offices.
- Date & venue will be announced on the ICHR’s website in due course of time.
About Us:
- The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which had been established by an Administrative Order of the then Ministry of Education. The body, over many years, has provided financial assistance to the historians and direction to the research scholars in their multifarious topics of historical research through established historians and scholars of the country.
- ICHR disburses funds for carrying out research to Indian as well as foreign scholars on their applications for fellowships, grants, and symposia, made to the Indian Council of Historical Research or through the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
- The source of the funds at the disposal of the ICHR is grants-in-aid received from the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, grants-in-aid from various Indian states, private donations from individuals and other countries, and the proceeds of revenues from the sale of publications of the ICHR.
- The ICHR has a rich corpus of funds which has been continued to be deposited with UCO Bank at Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi. It is the only academic institution which chose to keep its deposit with a non-state bank of India.
- Based in Delhi with regional centers in Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Guwahati (Assam), the Indian Council for Historical Research has served the scholar community. The Regional Center of the ICHR at Bengaluru was established by eminent liberal historian Professor S Settar, the then Chairman of ICHR, and the then Director of ICHR, Dr Sushil Kumar. The Regional Center at Gauhati was established at the instance of the Minister of State hailing from Assam commenced functioning in the library wing of Guwahati University.
- The Government of India has entered into cultural exchange programmes with many countries of the world for an exchange of historians and exchange of views between them.
- The ICHR was formed as a literary and charitable society, a fully funded autonomous body of the Ministry of Education with the historians R.S. Sharma the then Head Department of History, Delhi University, nominated as its first chairman, ICHR,Satish Chandra, J.S. Garewal and M.N. Prasad, the then the Director of the National Archives of India at the helm. The present Chairman of ICHR Professor Sudershan Rao is an eminent historian and member secretary is Dr. Anand Shanker Singh.
- Some of the notable historian members/functionaries of the Indian Council have been Irfan Habib, Sushil Kumar, Tapan Raychaudhuri, and Barun De.
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