Visvesvaraya Fellowship

The “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT” (Visvesvaraya-phd-scheme/) was initiated by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India with an objective to enhance the number of PhDs in Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) and IT/IT Enabled Services (IT/ITES) sectors in the country. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the scheme in 2014 for a period of nine years with a total estimated cost of ₹ 466 crores (Rupees Four Hundred Sixty Six Crores Only).The scheme’s second phase, which has a budget of Rs. 481.93 crore, over nine years, has now been initiated and aims to :

  • 1000 Full Time PhD Candidates.
  • 150 Part Time PhD Candidates
  • 50 awardees of “Young Faculty Research Fellowship”
  • 225 awardees of Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  • Click here to apply for PhD program under Visvesvaraya Scheme at IIT Bhilai.




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    Our Pride Scholars who have seized the Fellowship under Visvesvaraya Fellowship Scheme :

    Visvesvaraya Scholar Department Supervisor Personal Webpage Research Title Batch

    Mr. Shivraj Gahir

    Email: shivrajgahir@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Mechanical Engineering

    Dr. Jose Immanuel R
    (Assistant Professor)
    NA Additive manufacturing of copper and copper alloys. Dec-2022

    Ms. Rajrupa Banerjee

    Email: rajrupab@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Physics

    Dr. Sudhanwa patra
    (Associate Professor)
    NA Quantum Information Theory and its application in Neutrino Oscillation. Dec-2022

    Mr.Thipparthi Raja Gopala Chary

    Email: trajagopala@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Mechanical Engineering

    Dr. Jose Immanuel R
    (Assistant Professor)
    (Click here) Laser based processing of advanced electronic material Dec-2023

    Ms. Shikha Kaiwart

    Email: SHIKHAK@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering

    Dr. Suchetan Pal
    (Associate Professor)
    NA Development of bioscaffolded optoelectronic materials. Dec-2023

    Mr. Hemant Kumar

    Email: hemantk@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Physics

    Dr. Dhruv Pratap Singh
    (Associate Professor)
    NA Novel plasmonic sensitized and hybrid semiconductors for photocatalytic applications . Dec-2023

    Mr. Manish Kumar Sahu

    Email: manishss@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Physics

    Dr. Santosh Biswas
    (Professor)
    NA Quantum Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Key Primitives . Dec-2023

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    Email: academics@iitbhilai.ac.in
    Phone: 0788-2991609

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