New Delhi: As per UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is distributing fellowship and scholarship amounts via a bank portal integrated with the public financial management system for direct benefit transfer payments.
Jagadesh Kumar informed that Canara Bank has created the Scholarship and Fellowship Management Portal (SFMP) for the delivery of funds. The online web portal will have features which will help in confirming the monthly payment of scholarships, tracking modules and submitting grievances through the module
According to Kumar, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has added new portal upgrades like connecting initiated by the scholar, monthly payment confirmation initiated by the scholar, tracking module, grievance module, and onboarding of academic users.
Payments to awardees are automatically generated on the authorised web portal, scholarship.canarabank.in, for all recipients linked by university, institution, or college based on monthly confirmation of candidates by the relevant university, institution, or college.
In addition to this, the commission has decided to host a training session or workshop for nodal officers using the portal in virtual form from November 14 to November 18, according to the UGC chief.
"All institutions are urged to send the relevant nodal officers (maker/checker) working on the SFMP to the workshop, where attendance is required. Soon, the virtual meeting's URL would be made public ", added Kumar.
In addition to this, the UGC has scrapped the mandatory thesis publication clause for PhD students. With this, students no longer have to complete and submitted their thesis before research papers are published in peer-reviewed journals in new regulations for Doctoral Programs (PhD).
Informing about the decision, the UGC Chairman stated that by eliminating the provision for mandatory publication of the thesis, the higher education authority has acknowledged that the "one-size-fits-all" approach is not preferable.
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