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After completing a postgraduate degree, one of the options is to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) program. These Ph.D programs cost money and time. To help a scholar there are many Research Fellowship Schemes in India funded by either a government agency or a private one. Such a scholar pursuing a Ph.D receives a monthly stipend and in some cases an annual contingency grant for 2 to 5 years.
The most relevant of these are:
- Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
- Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Scholarship
- Physical Research Laboratory Junior Research Fellowship
- Google PhD Fellowship India Program
- ICHR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
- ICSSR Doctoral Research Fellowship
- Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) (discontinued from fiscal year 2023)[1]
- NCERT Doctoral Fellowship for PhD
- Junior Research Fellowship
- CSIR-UGC JRF NET Fellowship
- AICTE Doctoral fellowship (ADF)
- DBT-JRF Fellowship
- FITM – AYUSH Research Fellowship Scheme
- SAARC Agricultural PhD Scholarship
- Swami Vivekananda Single Child Scholarship for Research in Social Science
- ESSO-NCESS Junior Research Fellowship
- ^ "Centre stops Maulana Azad scholarship for research scholars from minority communities". The Hindu. 8 December 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 August 2023.