Professor P R Brahmananda
Endowment Research Grant
Notification
Ref: PRB/II-Res
Grant/Acad/2011
January 26, 2011
The
Institute has created Professor P R Brahmananda Endowment Research Fund with
a donation from his family members. The Endowment Research Corpus will be
utilised to award research grant to young researchers working in Monetary
and Macro Economics. The topic chosen for this year’s research award is
“Monetary and Credit Policies for Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth
in India”.
Interested
young researchers are invited to send in their proposals for writing the
Paper on the above mentioned research theme or submit completed paper, if
any, for consideration. The Institute will offer a research award of
Rs.35000/- for the best judged work which can be published in the Journal of
Social and Economic Development or any other reputed refereed Journal. The
author will have freedom to publish it elsewhere with due acknowledgement to
the Institute and the Fund.
The
proposals should reach the Institute, along with duly completed prescribed
application form, on or before October 31, 2011.
Please visit website isec.ac.in for more details in this regard and for
downloadable application form. The proposals should be sent to the
Registrar, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Dr V K R V Rao
Road, Nagarabhavi Post, Bangalore – 560072, India, in a cover with a
superscription as “RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR PROFESSOR P R BRAHMANANDA
ENDOWMENT RESEARCH GRANT FOR THE YEAR 2011”.
Registrar
Email:
registrar@isec.ac.in
Tel :
080-23217011
Fax
: 080-23217008
Ground Rules
The Institute has received an Endowment Fund of Rs. 5.00
lakh from the family members of Professor P R Brahmananda.
The Board
of Governors of ISEC in its meeting on 20.6.2009 has decided to offer a
research award in Monetary Policy every year. The theme of the research
project will be decided by the Board every year. It has decided the theme
of the first year’s project for the award as “Aspects of Monetary Policy
in India since Independence”.
The
Endowment Fund will be kept in a deposit in the Bank and the interest
earned therein will be utilized for paying a research grant annually.
Under the
Programme, proposals for research will be invited from young researchers
on a theme chosen by the Board of Governors every year. An advertisement
inviting such proposal will be released in Economic and Political Weekly
besides posting it on ISEC Website.
The
applicants seeking the research grant should submit three copies of their
proposal. The proposals will be sent for review by an anonymous referee
from out of the panel of experts approved by the Board of Governors.
The applicants should apply
using the prescribed form for the purpose.
The best
proposal from out of the short-listed/qualified proposals will be selected
for the research award by a Committee of experts constituted by the
Director.
The Visiting Fellows shall
submit three copies of the Draft Project Report with a panel of six names
to facilitate sending the report for refereeing. The Draft Report has to
be finalized in the light of the referees’ comments.
The sanctioned amount shall
be released in two installments as follows:
(a) 40% after the acceptance
of the Project;
(b) 60% after the acceptance
of the Final Manuscript revised on the basis of experts comments.
Three
copies of the Final Project Report and a soft version in a CD should be
prepared with due acknowledgment to Professor P R Brahmananda Endowment
Fund and submitted to the Institute in final settlement of the research
Award.
As decided by the
Board of Governors of the Institute,
the first year’s research award will be
given to a research work focusing on “The History of Monetary Policy in
India Since Independence”.
Prof. Ashima Goyal,
Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, General Vaidya
Marg, Santhosh Nagar, Goregaon (E), MUMBAI 400 065, is the first
"Professor P R Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant" Awardee for a research
on History of Monetary Policy in India Since Independence, for
the year 2010-11.
Registrar
Application Form
Application Form for Professor
P R Brahmananda Endowment Research Grant
