The State Government has decided to provide research fellowship to the students doing PhD focusing climate change. Guidelines for fellowship have been prepared as per the guidelines of UGC and CSIR An amount of Rs 25,000 per month for 24 months towards research fellowship and a sum of Rs 50,000 per annum towards contingency expenses will be provided to the selected research students through their institutes. Period of the research fellowship can be extended for further 6 months as per the need. There is a plan to give 5 research fellowships at present. This decision was taken in a meeting chaired by the Principal Secretary Environment and Director General EPCO Malay Shrivastava.
Executive Director EPCO Anupam Rajan informed that conclusion obtained from research work will help making plan and scheme related to climate change.
Madhya Pradesh is the leader State in the country which has established such kind of fellowship. In order to encourage high quality research work, EPCO will give fellowship to the nominated candidates of national and state level institutions like Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal, School of Planning And Architecture- Bhopal, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology-Bhopal, Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University- Jabalpur, IIT , IIM- Indore, IIITM Gwalior and Vikram University Ujjain.
Rajan said that this field is new and important. There is a wide scope and need for research in this field.
Keeping in view this, EPCO has decided to give research fellowship to encourage students.
It may be mentioned that EPCO is a distinguished organization of Madhya Pradesh. Besides giving consultancy to the government on environment related issues, this organization works in the field of research, study, action plan, training and competency development.
State Knowledge Management Center on Climate Change is also established in EPCO.