The Department of Science and technology (DST) through the Science and Engineering Board (SERB) has launched a scheme titled VAJRA(Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty to tap the expertise of Overseas Faculty/Scientists including Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). Honourable Prime Minister announced the scheme during 15th edition of Pravasi Bharitya Diwas (PBD) held on January 8, 2017 in Banglore. The scheme offers adjunct/visiting faculty positions to overseas scientists/faculty/R&D professionals including NRIs to Institutions in India. The Scheme is expected to undertake collaborative research in Frontier areas of S&T including the interdisciplinary areas of national priorities such as energy, water environment , health, security, nutrition, waste processing, advanced materials, high performance computing, cyber-physical systems , smart machines and manufacturing , etc and stimulate the latent potential of our academic and research sector.

Applications for scheme are open for submission from 1st July 2017 onwards through www.serbonline.in. Honourable Minister (Science and technology and Earth Sciences has recently launched the web portal for VAJRA. The scheme details are available at www.vajra-india.in

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