Call for CHANAKYA Fellowship is open (Last Date to Apply: 21st September 2025)

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About

Comprehensive and Holistic Advancement of National Knowledge Yield and Analytics (CHANAKYA) is an initiative under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) with a focus on human resource development. Engineering colleges/ Technical institutes in India are a huge pool of human resource in the form of students, but they are not sufficiently oriented towards reaching out to industry or solving problems that can benefit society. To overcome this gap and produce graduates trained in CPS who can be problem-solvers or turn entrepreneurs.

Eligibility

Undergraduate (UG): i) Students can be of any discipline of Engineering/Science/Agriculture of undergraduate course to be eligible for the fellowship.
ii) Students should have completed the first/second (engineering/science) year program and have at least 10 months left in their respective course at the time of sanction.
Postgraduates (PG): i) Students admitted to PG program in CPS or related areas at IITs, NITs and other AICTE/UGC approved institutions and having a valid GATE/JAM score. Dual degree students from IITs without GATE score are eligible for PG fellowship.
ii) The student should have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)/ Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) of 6.0 on the scale of 0-10 or a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate, till immediate previous semester/year/degree, at the time of the start of fellowship.
iii) Students should not be receiving any other Government funded fellowship/grants, during the period of the fellowship.