Ministry of Culture is running a fellowship scheme to promote cultural research in different fields of culture-Culture Minister

Ministry of Culture

Ministry of Culture is running a fellowship scheme to promote cultural research in different fields of culture-Culture Minister

Posted On: 08 JUL 2019 by PIB Delhi

The Ministry of Culture is implementing the Scheme for Award of Senior / Junior Fellowships to Outstanding Persons for cultural research in different fields of Culture. Junior/Senior Fellowships are awarded to outstanding persons in the age group of 25 to 40 years (Jr.) and above 40 years (Sr.) in different cultural fields for the period of 2 years for cultural research in different cultural fields.

The Senior / Junior Fellowships are open to all and there is no specific quota for females.

The categories mentioned in ‘New Areas’ in Scheme guidelines are expansive in nature and  diversely cover different subjects related to culture.  The research proposals that are innovative and application oriented, preferably inter-disciplinary in nature, are considered as per the Scheme guidelines.

This information was given by the Minister of State (I/c) of Culture and Tourism, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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Source : PIB