- Duration of fellowship:
- For young scientist- 3 to 6 months
- For senior scientist- 10 to 15 days
- Number of fellowship seats
- For young scientist: 12 seats per year
- For senior scientist: 6 seats per year
- Scholarship:
- Young scientist: USD 3000 per month (includes accommodation and other expense), return economy class airfare for excursion (by Air India), Contingency grant up to INR 20,000
- Senior scientist: USD 200/day (USD 75/ day up to USD 125 for accommodation expense, up to a max of USD 3000 for the entire stay), return economy class airfare for excursion (by Air India), Contingency grant up to INR 20,000
- Legal bond of INR 5 lac must be signed between the applicant and the parent institute for a period of 3 years after the return of the applicant from fellowship program.
- Fellowship needs to be availed before 28th February of the next year.
- If fellows are placed overseas during the period of fellowship then they should return the complete expense incurred during the fellowship within one month of the completion of fellowship to ICMR. This undertaking needs to be submitted on a non-judicial stamp paper of INR 50.