Question : FELLOWSHIPS TO RESEARCH FELLOWS

(a) whether it is a fact that some of the Research Fellows have not been paid their fellowship by several institutions for the last five to six months on the plea of non receipt of grant from council of Scientific and Industrial Research;

(b) if so, the number of Research Fellows, particularly of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences for whom the grant has not been released by the CSIR and the reasons thereof ; and

(c) the date by which the grant is likely to be released to the institutions for paying the fellowships to the Research fellows of CSIR ?

MINISTER OF STATE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (BACHI SINGH RAWAT)

(a) Yes Sir.

(b)&(c) : Grants had not been released to twenty Research Fellows/Associates of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow because their Progress Reports/Claim Bills/Accounts Statements/ Utilization Certificates were not received by CSIR. On 05.2.2003, the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences had submitted the Accounts Statements and Utilization Certificates in respect of 10 Research Fellows, the payment for them was released on 25.02.2003 against their claim bills. For the remaining Research Fellows the payment will be released as and when the Progress Reports/ Claim Bills/Accounts Statements/Utilization Certificates are received.