It may be noted that the fellowship amount shall be disbursed through Canara Bank to the bank account of the awardee, (any bank) directly. The list of designated branches of Canara Bank is available on the UGC portal www.ugc.ac.in.
The detailed breakup of the amount of fellowship/Contingency/Departmental Assistance is given in Annexure-I.
The awardee is required to approach the designated branch along with a Copy of the Award Letter and Joining Report with photograph, address and contact number in the prescribed proforma Annexure-II
The awardee is also required to submit the following documents to the designated branch of the Canara Bank at the stipulated period interval:
1. At the end of every three months a 'Continuation Certificate' in the prescribed proforma. Annexure-III . This will make the awardee eligible to draw the fellowship for the next three months.
2. After completion of one year of the award of fellowship, the concerned fellow/awardee shall submit and present its Progress Report in the proforma prescribed by the UGC as given in Annexure-IV .
3. The Fellow/awardee shall also submit and present accounts of contingency grants in the proforma prescribed by the UGC as given in Annexure-V .
4. Fellow/awardee shall submit and present its HRA Certificate in the prescribed proforma Annexure-VI .
5. Escorts & Reader's Assistance, Departmental Assistance is given in Annexure-VII . It may be noted that UGC has proposed to link "AADHAAR" with student’s bank accounts numbers so that there can be direct cash transfer and effective disbursal of scholarship into the bank account of the student.
In this regard Secretary, UGC has already requested to universities for helping the students for Aadhaar Enrolment vide his D.O. letter No.F.14-34/2011(CPP-I) dated 11-01-2013. Please note that the award is liable to be cancelled and it will also attract legal action against the awardee in the following cases:
i)If the awardee is found to be ineligible to receive the award, at any point of time during the entire duration of the fellowship
ii)Misconduct of Awardee
iii)Unsatisfactory progress of research work of the awardee
iv)Any other fellowship is drawn from other source(s).
v)Concealment of facts and on any other ground of misconduct. In order to provide easy accessibility, all the details of the scheme, its requirements, all the prescribed proforma for submission of the documents along with the details of the designated branches of Canara Bank are available on the UGC portal www.ugc.ac.in/pdfw
