INTRODUCTION

Under Data Collection Abroad scheme, the ICSSR provides financial assistance to Indian Social Science Scholars who intend to visit abroad for the purposes of Data Collection or consulting Archival Material in connection with their research work.

It is aimed at providing financial assistance to ICSSR scholars who have proposed field work abroad in their original approved fellowship or project proposal and made substantial progress in their research or any other independent scholar where data collection abroad is academically justified for research undertaken and are at an advance stage of their research.

ELIGIBILITY

• Serving Indian Faculty members in ICSSR research institute/ICSSR recognized institutes/institutions of national importance as defined by the Ministry of Education/university/deemed university/colleges recognized by the UGC and having 12b status with Ph.D degree are eligible to apply.
• Ph.D/PDF Indian scholars are also eligible to apply.

DURATION AND VALUE

• The visit under this Scheme should not be for more than one-month duration.
• The total expenditure on the foreign visit including economy class airfare, visa fee, travel insurance, local conveyance and maintenance, etc. should not normally exceed to Rs.3 lakhs.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

• Applications are received online throughout the year.
• After submitting online application, a hard copy of the same, along with all enclosures, must be sent to: In-charge, IC Division, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067.

IMPORTANT POINTS

Instalment details

• The sanctioned amount towards maintenance will be released before commencement of the visit on submission of the copy of passport, visa procured, ticket and an undertaking. In case of a scholar receiving air fare from any other source, 75 % of the maintenance grant would be given in advance and remaining 25 % after satisfactory submission of the relevant documents including Statement of Expenditure.
• The expenditure will be reimbursed on submission of the statement of expenditure indicating air tickets costs, Visa fees, Insurance Charges, Hotel Bills, Purchase of Foreign Currency Bill, local airport transfers, along with photocopy of passport, immigration stamped paper, original boarding pass and detailed report on the work done related to your research.

Monitoring

The ICSSR may ask for a copy of the tickets booked and visa obtained before departure.

Research outcome

If any publications either through Monographs/Book brought out from the material collected under ICSSR support for data collection, the ICSSR’s funding should be duly acknowledged and a copy of the publication should be sent to the ICSSR.