Call for Applications for the ICSSR’s Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowships for the Financial Year 2024-25

Applications are invited for the following Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowship Schemes of the ICSSR for the Financial Year 2024-25:

i. Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

ii. Short-Term Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

iii. Contingency Grant Scheme

Last date of submission of the online application has been extended until 10 September 2024 and hard copy till 17th September 2024

The candidates shall submit an online application on the ICSSR website as per the following schedule:

Link to apply: https://app.icssr.org

Applicants are required to read the guidelines carefully before submitting their online application forms. A scholar can apply for only one of the fellowship schemes in a Financial Year. Applicants are also advised to apply well before the last date in order to avoid last moment rush. The applications can be filled either in English or in Hindi (Arial/Mangal Unicode font will be used in Devanagari script to fill application form in Hindi). The links for detailed guidelines for applying along with requisite formats are provided on this web page.

Applicants are requested to take a printout of the online application form and send it along with all the annexures to

The Deputy Director (Research),
RFD Division
Indian Council of Social Science Research,
JNU Institutional Area,
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,
New Delhi – 110067

The ICSSR Grant-in-aid Research Institutes will also issue call for Institutional Doctoral Fellowship Scheme. The applicants seeking consideration under Institutional Doctoral Fellowship Scheme will also apply through the ICSSR website in online mode and select ‘Institutional’ in Section 1.1 of application form and ‘ICSSR Research Institute’ in Part IV, Section 13A of the online application form. The hardcopy of applications must be forwarded by the respective ICSSR Research Institutes.

Important Documents 

* Guidelines
* Format for Proposal [DOC]
* Forwarding Letter by the Affiliating Institution
* Forwarding Letter by the Supervisor of the Doctoral Scholar
* Link to apply: https://app.icssr.org

For Technical assistance, email to cc [at] icssr [dot] org