Swarnajayanti Fellowships Scheme

The Government of India under the Ministry of Science and Technology had instituted a scheme “The Swarnajayanti Fellowships” to commemorate India’s fiftieth year of Independence in 1997.
Under this scheme a selected number of young scientists, with proven track record, are provided special assistance and support to enable them to pursue basic research in frontier areas of science and technology.
Scientists selected for the award will be allowed to pursue unfettered research with a freedom and flexibility in terms of expenditure as approved in the research plan.
The project should contain innovative research ideas and it should have a potential of making impact on R&D in the discipline.
The fellowships are scientist specific and not institution specific, very selective and have close academic monitoring.

The award consists of a Fellowship of Rs 25000/- per month in addition to the salary drawn from the parent Institute for a period of 5 years.
The fellows selected along with their projects will be considered for funding by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) as per SERB norms, for fellowship.

Fundamental properties of massive neutrinos are about to be unravelled by a Swarna Jayanti Fellow under this scheme.

A neutrino is a subatomic particle that is very similar to an electron, but has no electrical charge and a very small mass, which might even be zero.
Neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in the universe.
They have very little interaction with matter and are incredibly difficult to detect.
Natural sources of neutrinos include the radioactive decay of primordial elements within the earth, supernovas, dark matter etc.,

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