Mysore :

Padma Shankaran, a young researcher at the Food Engineering Department of the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, has bagged the prestigeous Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research for the year 2013.

She is the second researcher to receive this fellowship. Nidhina M. Bhaskaran, another doctoral student at CSIR-CFTRI had bagged the fellowship for the year 2012.

The fellowship is a novel scheme started a year ago to encourage young innovators to take up research relevant to the industry. Every year a maximum of 100 awards are given. However, till date only 62 fellowships have been granted of which among the biological sciences, CSIR-CFTRI researchers have received the fellowships in consecutive years.

The awardees are selected by a Core Committee consisting of both members of academia as well as industry partners from the Confederation of Indian Industries following rigorous evaluation of the research problems proposed by the candidates. The award carries a fellowship of Rs. 50,000 per month for the doctoral research by the awardee, and is shared equally by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India, and private industries.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / May 09th, 2014