Ministry of Culture
Tagore National Fellowship
Date of posting:20 May
Eligibility: Other Courses
Location: Any where in India
Job Category: Govt Sector, Scholarships
Last Date: 30 June 11

Job Type: Full Time
Hiring Process: Face to Face Interview.
Job Details

Ministry of Culture  invites applications for Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural Research www.freshersworld.com

Objective: The Scheme has been introduced in order to invigorate and revitalise the various institutions under the Ministry of Culture (MoC) and other identified cultural institutions in the country, by encouraging scholars/ academicians to affiliate themselves with these institutions to work on projects of mutual interest. With a view to infuse fresh knowledge capital into the institutions, the scheme expects these scholars/academicians to select specific resources of the institutions to take up projects and research work that are related to the main objectives of these institutions and to enrich them with a new creative edge and academic excellence.

Scope of the Scheme: The scope of the Scheme is to enable the identified cultural institutions engage scholars of outstanding merit, to work on research projects that unravel their unexplored resources. The institutions as well as scholars may identify areas to be explored, but the subject of research need not be confined/ limited to one institution. For purposes of convenience, monitoring, accounting and responsibility, one of the institutions listed in para 3 would be the ‘Nodal Institution’ for each project, and the Fellow will be attached/ anchored to that institution.
Eligibility :

   1. Scholars who have sound academic or professional credentials and have made significant contribution to knowledge in their respective fields, as reflected in publications in reputed and referred journals and books authored by them, or persons with significant creative work in any field of art or culture, will be eligible to be considered for the award of the Fellowship.
   2. Scholars to be engaged must have both the credentials as laid down in the preceding paragraph (1), as well as a strong reputation in the field covered by the Nodal Institution. As the honour and the honorarium are both of a very high order, the Institution Level Search-cum-Screening Committee of the sponsoring institution and the National Selection Committee may keep these in mind while recommending/ selecting the Tagore National Fellows.
   3. Those selected as Tagore National Fellows have, therefore, to:
      a) be of highest standing in terms of research and years of experience;
      b) have a very impressive list of publications, that have found acceptability in the scholarly world; and
      c) have past experience in dealing with the projects directly connected to the Nodal Institution and/or allied institutions.
   4. In short, a person selected for the Tagore National Fellowship should be one who has already become a ‘legend’ in his area of work or is regarded very highly. It is appropriate that those who do not come near this description may not apply or be considered for the highest honour and honorarium accorded to a scholar in India under this Fellowship.

Number of Fellowships: 15

Duration of the Fellowship: The duration of the Fellowship will be for a maximum period of two years.

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