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Location ISEC is located amidst sylvan landscape of 16-hectare at Nagarabhavi, Bangalore, adjoining to campuses of Bangalore University and National Law School of India University. The Institute’s campus is well maintained with sprawling gardens and lawns and also preserved a variety of flora and fauna. ISEC campus is situated 12 Kms away from Central Railway Station and Central Bus stand with very good networks of buses. To find the location of ISEC campus, visit our website: http://www.isec.ac.in/new-route-map.pdf Organisation The Institute has eight academic research centres with different social science disciplines. These include, Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation (ADRTC), Centre for Decentralisation and Development (CDD), Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Centre for Economic Studies and Policy (CESP), Centre for Human Resource Development (CHRD), Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development (CPIGD), Centre for Study of Social Change and Development (CSSCD) and Population Research Centre (PRC). The faculty of these centres provide guidance to the Ph D Students for pursuing research in the individual disciplines. The strong point of training at ISEC is its emphasis on inter-disciplinary and socially relevant research. Hostel and Guest House The Institute has well equipped Hostel for boy and girl students and an excellent and well furnished Guest House for visiting Students. Full time Ph D Students are provided hostel accommodation with reasonable rent. Visiting Students and academicians are provided guest house accommodation. Library Dr. V K R V Rao Library, which is digitized, is a treasure house of books, documents, reports and journals with more than 1.21 lakh collections. The library subscribes more than 300 professional foreign and Indian journals. UNDP, World Bank, UN and a number of other international organisations have recognized it as a Depository Library. About 80 journals are accessible online. The housekeeping operations and catalogue is computerized using Libsys integrated library software and the database can be accessed online. One can have access to a large number of rare documents and connection with similar libraries across the world. Computer Lab The Institute has state-of-art computer laboratory with web enabled network 2 mbps lease line connection for internet browsing. This is an exclusive Computer Lab facility created for the use of PhD Students. Alumni The Institute has facilitated 164 PhD Students in securing PhD in different social science disciplines. The Students who obtained Ph D from ISEC are occupying high academic and crucial positions in many institutions in India and abroad. ISEC maintains information on its alumni on its website (http://www.isec.ac.in/phd-alumni.htm). PhD Programmes ISEC offers two categories of Ph D Programme - (a) full time (residential) for students and (b) part-time (non-residential) for serving academicians and interested scholars. The hallmark of our Ph D Progrmme is its bi-annual seminars and doctoral committees. Doctoral Committee will meet at least twice preceding bi-annual seminars and provides valuable inputs to the PhD Students besides monitoring progress of their thesis work. Every PhD Student is required to make presentation in the bi-annual seminars of the Institute in June and December.
Doctoral Committee and Bi-annual Seminar In addition to the PhD Supervisor, every PhD Student will have an advisory Doctoral Committee consisting of faculty across disciplines. Doctoral Committees meet regularly and advise the students at various steps in research. Bi-annual seminar provides an opportunity for research students to make presentations about progress of their PhD work and receive valuable inputs from Panel of experts. Enrollment/Registration After successful completion of the Pre-PhD Course, students are required to enroll/register with one of the universities where ISEC has recognition. They are required to comply with all the requirements of the university concerned with regard to enrollment/registration, and thereafter remit periodical fee such as tuition, service, processing, thesis submission etc. Disciplines of Specialisation The test for admission will be administered only in the disciplines/specializations mentioned here. Eligibility requirements are the same for all candidates. The disciplines or specializations available for taking up entrance test for PhD in the Institute are:
(For detailed specializations in the above disciplines see the website: http://www.isec.ac.in/academic.html) Eligibility The aspirants for ISEC Ph D Programme and research fellowships must satisfy the following requirements:
Other Discipline-wise Eligibility Requirements:
Fellowship Candidates who have passed UGC-JRF are paid the fellowship as per the UGC norms, upon receipt of fellowship grant from UGC. These Fellowship holders should comply with all the requirements of the UGC, from time to time. The candidates who have UGC-NET or SLET are paid a scholarship of Rs.6,000 p.m. while others (non-UGC-NET/SLET) are paid Rs.5,000 p.m. for a period of 10 months during pre-PhD Coursework and contingency of Rs.12000 per annum. Upon successful completion of PhD Coursework the fellowship is extendable to a further period of three years when fellowship payable during the first two years would be Rs.12,000/- p.m. and a contingency of Rs.10,000/- per annum. During the third year the fellowship payable will be Rs.14000/- p.m. and the annual contingency will be Rs.20,500/-. These Fellowship holders should comply with all the requirements of the ICSSR/ISEC, from time to time. Selection Procedure Applications will be invited every year in the month of March. After preliminary screening of applications, the short listed candidates will be called for a written test to be held in July every year after displaying the list of candidates to be called for written test on our website www.isec.ac.in. Candidates qualifying in the written test will be interviewed at Centre level after the written test and final selection will be made their after. How to ApplyThe prescribed application form will be available for downloading on our website from the month of March to May every year. The duly filled-in application form with all the relevant enclosures should be submitted along with the prescribed application fee in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in favour of the Registrar, ISEC, Bangalore (The DD is payable at State Bank of Mysore, Mallathahalli Branch, Bangalore. Branch code: SBMY0040457). Applications received in response to the advertisement in the month of March will be processed after the last date fixed for receiving the application which is usually May every year. The prospective candidates may await our PhD advertisement appearing in next March. For more information and clarifications Contact:
Dr. Sunil Nautiyal,
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Institute
for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) was founded by Professor VKRV Rao in
1972. Its primary objective is to provide high quality academic training to
Ph D Students to prepare them as distinguished researchers and teachers in
the field of social sciences. ISEC is presently affiliated to Bangalore,
Mysore, Mangalore and Osmania Universities and the National Law School of
India University for the award of PhD degree. We have collaborated with
Maastricht University, Warsaw University, Centre for Asian Studies (Kyungpook
National University, Republic of Korea), Bombay University, Central
University of Rajasthan and University of Central Asia (Republic of
Tajikistan).
