Govt launches single interface fellowship portal for applicants, starts ups by DBT
The portal will save energy and time for aspiring students and startups
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched ‘Common Fellowship Portal’-a single interface between applicants and various fellowship schemes by the Department of Biotechnology at National Media Centre, New Delhi.
He added that this portal will save the energy and time of aspiring students and startups, besides bringing ease of applying will enable a simplified and streamlined process from the submission of the application form to the selection. The applicants can create their profile on the portal and use the same information to auto-fill different applications. Thus, this portal will help all applicants by reducing their time and energy by getting full information and submitting applications in a single place with the click of a mouse.
According to Dr Singh, departments under the Ministry of Science & Technology (DST, DBT, CSIR) have come together for submission of application forms and soon application forms for all other Departments such as ICMR, UGC and AICTE will also be on-boarded.
Dr Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology. Prof Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology. Dr Sanjay Mishra, Senior advisor along with Dr Pragya Palliwal Gaur, Director General, Press Information Bureau and Namita Gupta, Head, INSPIRE were also present for the launch ceremony.
