Under its responsive role the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has an elaborate programme of supporting research to individual scholars by offering them fellowships at different levels in social science disciplines.
ICSSR has granted a research project at National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) on 'Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation Analysis for Drought Risk in Bundelkhand' for 15 months period. Fellow will be advised/promoted to register for Ph.D. in a University.
Qualification:
PG degrees in Environment/ Geography/ Agriculture or allied discipline. Flair in writing and data interpretation shall be desired. Exposure to GIS application and some knowledge on similar topic/subject may be added advantage.
Fellow will also be associated with Indo-German international project ekDRM 2010-2012 activities for broad exposure and some contingencies may be supported from the ekDRM project.
Fellowship duration: 15 months
Fellowship starting from: 1st June, 2011
Fellowship amount: Rs. 10,500/- per month
Contact details:
Dr Anil K Gupta
Project Director,
National Institute of Disaster Management(NIDM)
5-B, IIPA Campus, IP Estate, Mahatma Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi – 110002
Tel: (011) 23702432
email: anil.nidm@nic.in
website: http://nidm.gov.in
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