UoH announces first PMRF Fellows

University of Hyderabad (UoH), One of India’s Institute of Eminence, has announced the selection of its first set of Ph.D. scholars for fellowship under the lateral entry channel of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme. The following 9 (nine) Ph.D. students are the selected Research Fellows:

School	Name of the student	Name of the Ph.D. supervisor
School of Chemistry	Ms. P. Rajya Lakshmi	Prof. D. B. Ramachary
	Mr. D. Arun	Dr. Srinivasarao Yaragorla
	Mrs. Kranthi Chatragadda	Prof. R. Nagarajan
	Mr. Arunava Dutta	Prof. Tushar Jana
School of Life Sciences	Ms. Sreya P K	Prof. Ch. Venkata Ramana
	Ms. Pavithra R	Prof. Rajagopal Subramanyam
	Ms. Jyotisha	Dr. Insaf Ahmed Qureshi
School of Physics	Mr. Dipanjan Banerjee	Prof. Soma Venugopal Rao
	Ms. Aiswarya T	Dr. G. S. Vaitheeswaran

The National Coordination Committee of the PMRF scheme made the selection of the above students.

Each fellow under PMRF scheme will receive a starting monthly fellowship of Rs. 70,000/-, which may increase to a maximum monthly fellowship of Rs. 80,000/- towards the end of Ph.D., provided the performance during the initial years of Ph.D. is satisfactory. Apart from this, each fellow would be eligible for a research grant of Rs. 2 Lakhs per year.

UoH can offer 13 fellowships under PMRF scheme through the lateral entry channel in the current cycle i.e., PMRF May 2020. Out of 13 fellowships, 9 fellowships are now announced. The remaining 4 lateral entry channel fellowships will be carried forward for the succeeding cycle. In addition to this, UoH can offer 5 direct entry channel fellowships under PMRF scheme in the current cycle.

Prof. Appa Rao Podile (Vice-Chancellor, UoH), Prof. N. Siva Kumar (Chairman, Internal Expert Committee (IEC) for PMRF lateral entry channel, May 2020 call), All the members of IEC, Prof. Vadali V. S. S. Srikanth (PMRF co-ordinator at UoH and Convenor, IEC), and the entire University fraternity congratulated the selected Research Fellows.