CSMS Junior/Senior Fellowships 2022

An Expert-Committee comprising experts in different fields constituted by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India will evaluate all the applicants on the basis of their applications and project proposals. Candidates fulfilling the eligibility criteria for Junior Fellowship will be called for an interview/personal talk by the Expert Committee which will select a maximum of 200 candidates for the award of Junior Fellowships, for each financial year (2020-21 & 2021-22) in different fields/areas taken together.

• Incomplete applications in any respect will be rejected summarily.
• The Ministry of Culture (MoC) reserves the right to reject/select the applications on the basis of screening and evaluations.
• All the shortlisted candidates will be informed about the date and venue of the interview/personal talk on the email address provided by them in their application. The candidates are required to remember their email, password and Project Title. 
• If a candidate who is awarded a fellowship is found ineligible for it at any later stage, the fellowship will be cancelled & money released to the candidate will be recovered.
• The awardees will submit six-monthly progress reports. In cases where such reports are not received on time, further releases of the Fellowship amount will be withheld.
• . The selected candidates will have to undertake academic or application-oriented research work on projects for which they have been awarded the Fellowship. They will complete their projects within two years and submit the same to the CCRT/Ministry of Culture.
• The extension of time for a maximum of three months will be permissible with the approval of the Ministry of Culture and without any additional financial liability to the Government.
• A mid-term review/assessment of the progress in each case will be carried out after one year and further continuance of Fellowship will depend on such review/ assessment.
• In the event of any legal dispute/proceedings concerning this project/scheme taking place, the matter will be dealt within the jurisdiction of the Delhi High Court only.
• Each successful application will be allotted a unique enrollment number by the system. Candidates may refer to this number in all their future correspondence with the CCRT and/or Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
• In case, where final and six monthly Project Reports are proposed to be submitted in a language other than English/Hindi, the applicants may give the 500 - words project synopsis in English/Hindi translation or send a printout of the application form along with the project synopsis in the chosen language to - the Director, CCRT, 15A, Sector-7, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075.
• Applicants must keep a print-out of the filled-in application form which they will be required to bring at the time of the interview/personal talk along with their detailed project proposal.
• The candidates are required to bring the other documents at the time of interview/personal talk which will be communicated separately to the shortlisted candidates.
• The applicants must fill the applications carefully as no other opportunity will be given to edit the details after submitting the application form.