A total of 15 research students from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) have been selected for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). This year, 14 research scholars from different departments of BHU also received the same fellowship. The IIT(BHU) students who have received the PMRF are Ajay Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey (both from Mechanical Engineering department), Iram Tasleema, Piyush Singh, Ritwik Tripathi (all Electrical Engineering), Neha Sharma (Electronics Engineering), Devyani Mangesh Yenurkar (Biomedical Engineering), Upkar Patel (School of Material Science and Technology), Ankita Gupta, Madhusmita Jena (both from Physics), and Anup Kumar, Apurb Mandal, Divakar Chaudhary and Taufik Ansari (all from Chemistry department).
Providing this information, the Dean (Academic Affairs), Prof Shyam Bihari Dwivedi, mentioned that from cycle 6 to cycle 11, a total of 52 students have been selected for the PMRF. These students will receive a fellowship of Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000 per month for a period of four to five years, and an annual research grant of Rs 2 lakh will also be provided.
The Deputy Registrar (Academic Affairs) Dr Amit Kumar Singh stated that the institute had recommended 20 students for the PMRF, but only nine seats were allocated to the institute in the current cycle. However, considering the outstanding research projects of the students, 15 students were selected for the PMRF, which is a significant achievement for the IIT (BHU).
The Director Prof Pramod Kumar Jain extended his best wishes to all the selected research students and their supervisors, encouraging them to work diligently and set new standards in their respective fields. The institute will provide all possible support to help them achieve excellence, he said.
Workshop on financial awareness held: The two-day workshop on Financial Awareness organised by National Institute of Security Marketing (NUSM), run by SEBI and Economics Department of Harishchandra PG College in the college premises here concluded on Tuesday.
The chief guest and Senior Professor in the college Prof Vishwanath Verma advised the students to remain vigilant from the financial and cyber fraudulants. The college Principal Prof Rajneesh Kunwar presided over it. The workshop coordinator Prof Jagdish Singh detailed the information related to the financial market such as primary market, secondary market, debt fund, equity find, etc and advised the students to remain vigilant from those committing the crime of fraud by adopting various techniques.
The resource person of SEBI Deepak Kumar detailed the process to be followed to making profit from share market by making a better portfolio and also informed about future & option trading, portfolio management and derivatives.
The other resource person Moni Sahu detailed the process of opening a savings account, current account, cheque book, sensor account, etc.
Karunesh Ojha presented the brief outline of the workshop. Prof Ashok Kumar, Prof Gajendra Das, Ajay Kumar, Amit Pandey, Ravikant Kasaudhan and others were present on the occasion.