UGC Releases List of Schemes for Which Funding will Continue Till Sept 30 due to Coronavirus

The University Grants Commission has decided to continue funding some schemes in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a list of schemes for which the funding will be continued till September 30, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic. A notice regarding this decision has been uploaded on the commission’s official website.

As per the notification, the schemes which have been considered to continue includes various Fellowships and Scholarships such as UGC research awards for faculty, fellowships for post-doctoral researchers, fellowships for doctoral students , scholarships for post-graduate students, Maulana Azad National Fellowship for minority students, national fellowship for students with disabilities, national fellowship for SC candidates, national fellowship for other backward classes Other schemes include Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), National Skills Qualification Framework, Swachh Bharat-Swasth Bharat Abhiyan and Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE).

University Grants Commission has issued another circular to improve India’s position in the case of warning research on plagiarism . This time, the Commission has also warned about the reuse of its own content. Just like you can not add anything to the new research paper from the research paper you have submitted earlier. This too would be considered plagiarism. In the past, the Ministry of Human Resource Development and UGC have issued a number of guidelines which have warned about plagiarism related to research.

In a recent notice, the UGC has said, “If you use a little or full of your previously published paper and submit it as your new and original paper, it will not be acceptable.”

Source – HT