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Contingency
(Study-cum-Travel) Grant
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The
ICHR may award Contingency (Study-cum-Travel)
grant to an Indian citizen, or to
a non-Indian, to assist him in pursuing
research on History within India.
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The
following shall be eligible for award
of grant under Clause 1:
(a) Scholars who are engaged
in M.Phil., Ph.D. or post-doctoral
work or carrying on independent research
in History and are not currently receiving
any travel or contingency grant for
the proposed work from any other source.
(b) University and college
teachers and members of staff of research
institutions and others who are engaged
in research work in History.
Provided
that
(i)
M.Phil./Ph.D. students shall have
completed at least six months of their
registration with their University,
before they can receive grants, though
they may apply earlier; and
(ii)
Indians registered for research or
otherwise affiliated to foreign universities
and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) shall
not be eligible for the grant.
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(a)
Grant defined under Clause 1, not
exceeding the sum of Rupees twenty
thousand (Rs. 20,000) may be awarded
to an M.Phil. student and Rupees thirty
thousand (Rs. 30,000) to a student
working for Ph.D. by the Study Grants
Committee, but grant of a sum exceeding
that amount can only be awarded by
the Research Projects Committee, either
upon advice of a consultant or upon
recommendations of the Study Grants
Committee.
(b)
The Study Grants Committee may consider
any application or proposal under
sub-clause (a), without necessarily
obtaining a consultants opinion
(c)
All decisions of the Study Grants
Committee shall be reported to the
Research Projects Committee.
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All
grants awarded under clause 3 shall
be routed through an institution of
affiliation, to which the ICHR shall
pay the overhead charges after the
receipt of the final report and the
statement of expenditure.
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In
expenditure out of grants made under
Clause 3 the following limits shall
be observed.
(a) Actual cost of rail/bus
fare shall be limited to first class/II
AC fare to the place of research and
back to the place of ordinary residence
of the scholar.
(b) Daily allowance for a maximum
of 90 days shall be at the rates allowed
by the institution of affiliation,
if the recipient is employed there,
or Rupees one hundred and fifty (Rs.
150) a day, if not employed.
(c)
For local conveyance Rupees five hundred
(Rs. 500) may be allowed per month
up to a maximum of three months.
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All
applications of grants under Clause
I should be made in accordance with
the proforma given in Annexure V.
The
following procedure shall be followed
for the release of Contingency grant
awarded in accordance with provisions
of Clause 3:
(a) Upon the applicant being
informed of the award he shall be
requested to signify his acceptance,
upon which it shall be released to
him through his institution of affiliation
in two or more instalments as determined
from time to time by the ICHR.
(b) To claim any subsequent
instalment, the awardee shall have
to submit to the ICHR a progress report
of the work done and statement of
expenditure of the previous instalment
through his institution of affiliation.
(c) The last instalment, as
determined by the ICHR, from time
to time, of the sanctioned grant shall
be withheld and released on reimbursement
basis only after the abstract of thesis,
dissertation or monograph has been
received, accompanied, in case of
grant having been awarded for the
pursuit of M.Phil./Ph.D. degree, with
a certificate from institution concerned
that the thesis/dissertation has been
submitted, and after the statement
of expenditure of total grant has
also been received by the ICHR and
is found to be in order (This shall
be operative in all on going cases).
Provided
that an additional amount of rupees
five hundred (Rs. 500) shall be paid
to the recipient of the grant over
and above the sanctioned amount of
grant, upon receipt of the said thesis,
dissertation or monograph, as lump
sum payment for any expenses incurred
in providing a copy thereof to the
ICHR.
Note: (i)
The total cost of books purchased
out of Contingency (Study-cum-Travel)
grant made under the provisions of
Chapter IV shall not exceed Rupees
two thousand (Rs. 2,000).
(ii) Any books purchased
out of contingency grant in excess
of the ceiling specified above shall
be deposited either with the ICHR
or with the institution of affiliation,
upon the end of the period of the
Contingency (Study-cum-Travel) grant
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