Sunday, November 22, 2015

On UGC Non-Net

Dear All,


Please find bellow a collective statement on the decision by the UGC to do away with the non-NET fellowship scheme. The intention is to organize a signature campaign and mass share with all. You can mail it to your friends and like-minded people, press, Govt. officials and so on. Please copy, paste, share, forward to as many as possible.


Thank all in anticipation.


"As students carrying out our research work in various disciplines, we strongly oppose the decision taken by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the 7th of October, 2015 to discontinue the non-NET fellowship scheme, which is operational in different central and few state universities across the country. We believe that this regressive decision will not only put the future of many aspiring researchers at stake but will also do great harm to the overall research atmosphere of the country. The non-NET fellowship scheme made it possible for a considerable number of researchers across disciplines to remain committed to the spirit of scholarship as they tried to survive a crucial period of transition in their career by struggling to clear the National Eligibility Test or avail some other source of financial support. Therefore, discontinuing this fellowship scheme will only adversely affect the quality of research and make it inaccessible to an important section of young and aspiring researchers who, despite great financial hurdles, decided to go on pursuing serious research work in their respective disciplines. Act of this kind on the part of UGC is at once insulting and discouraging to the scholars who are sincerely engaged in their research work, and concerned about both the present and future of scholarship in India.


This is no secret that researchers in India pursue their work within miserable infrastructural conditions and despite these, produce important specimens of scholarship. In such a situation, one expects that the UGC will work to create better research atmosphere in the country. The decision by the UGC to do away with the non-NET fellowship scheme has come as a rebuttal to our hopes and expectations. We, like our friends opposing this decision in front of the UGC, are afraid that this is yet another step to damage the spirit of public education in our country. Hence, we stand in solidarity with all those opposing this regressive decision which, we believe, will only be greatly harmful to the state of current research in India".


Researchers of India lets unite and demand UGC and MHRD take back this horrible decision and expand this scheme to various state universities with a hike in the fellowship amount.


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45
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