INSTITUTE
FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
Dr V K R V Rao Road, Nagarabhavi P
O, Bangalore - 560072, Karnataka, India
Professor P R Brahmananda
Endowment Research Grant
Ref:
PRB/I-Res Grant/Acad/2009
August 30, 2009
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. As decided by the
Board of Governors of the Institute, this year’s research award will be
given to a research work focusing on “The History of Monetary Policy in
India Since Independence”.
Interested young researchers are invited to
send in their proposals for writing the Paper on the theme chosen for the
year or submit completed paper, for consideration. The Institute will offer
a research award of Rs.35,000/- 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, in
the prescribed form, on or before
February 15,
2010. 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”.
Col.Ashutosh
Dhar (Retd)
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.
Registrar
Application Form
Application Form for Professor
P R Brahmananda Endowment Research Grant
