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Kuvempu University Vice-Chancellor Sharath Ananthamurthy has expressed interest implicit the alteration successful fellowships for probe scholars successful universities.
Speaking astatine the ceremonial to inaugurate the Kuvempu University Research Forum astatine Shankaraghatta, the assemblage headquarters, connected February 17, the Vice-Chancellor said that the Government of India has reduced fellowships. “The Government of India has thing called Prime Minister’s Fellowships, which are fewer and of an excessive amount. Earlier, the UGC utilized to supply galore fellowships of little amounts, which were inactive better. These person each been eliminated. The SC-ST fellowships are besides decreasing. We are successful a sedate situation,” helium said.
Recalling his caller sojourn to Kerala, Prof. Ananthamurthy said that helium was pleased to cognize that Kerala had asserted its national voice. “The Kerala government, contempt each the problems, has invested successful higher acquisition and research. They supply fellowships of ₹15,000 oregon ₹20,000 per month. They are besides offering postdoctoral fellowships,” helium said, noting that Karnataka students person a lesser amount.
New ideas
Listing the objectives of the forum, the Vice-Chancellor stated that the level was designed to promote conversations among probe scholars from antithetic disciplines. “Many of the champion probe ideas person emerged implicit java oregon tea. At the Indian Institute of Science successful Bengaluru, galore would accidental that immoderate of the top insights came from discussions astatine the java shop. Research scholars from antithetic departments would beryllium and sermon their topics. Such interactions are not happening successful State universities,” helium remarked.
The forum, helium stated, would beryllium 1 specified platform. “Fresh ideas and thoughts tin travel from youngsters. We request to let them the state to deliberation beyond what their guides are asking them to do. The guides are important and necessary; their relation is to usher them on the due way to knowledge,” helium opined.
Rajendra Chenni, a retired prof of English, recalled the past efforts of the assemblage to promote interdisciplinary research. However, specified efforts hardly received immoderate enactment from the administrative setup successful the State government, helium stated. He besides stressed the request for conversations among the disciplines and the instauration of assorted forms of knowledge.
Sharath Chandra Rao from Tumkur University, M.S. Sriram from the Indian Institute of Management successful Bengaluru, Deepa Srinivasa from the Central University of Hyderabad, and Geetha Menon, educationist and advisor astatine UNICEF-ROSA, spoke during the occasion.
Sharath Ananthamurthy further stated that helium has received complaints from probe scholars indicating that immoderate probe guides request wealth from scholars to walk their advancement reports.
The Vice-Chancellor said that specified behaviour by the guides is simply a transgression offence. “If I find retired astir this and radical bring this to my notice, I volition propulsion them out. The teaching community, custodians of precocious integrity and motivation values, cannot prosecute successful specified behaviour," helium said, adding that specified incidents harm the estimation of the university. He besides noted that the contented is not solely Kuvempu University’s problem.
