The Awards are given to recognize excellence in research and innovation of faculty members/researchers of the Central Universities.
Visitor's Award - Introduction
Visitor's Award under the Department of Higher Education is provided to encourage excellence through competition. These awards would help to promote healthy competition amongst Faculties/Students of the Central Universities and motivate them to adopt best practices from around the world in the pursuit of excellence.
Under the Visitor's Award, there are three categories:
- For Innovation.
- For Research.
- Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
- Physical Sciences.
- Biological Sciences.
- For Technology Development.
Who can nominate?
- Vice Chancellor/Dean/ Director/Professor of nominee's University.
Selection Process
The selection committee will invite online nominations in the prescribed formats in the web portal. The selection committee will devise its procedure to select the awardees, which will be put in the relevant portal. A panel of awardees would be prepared by a Selection Committee for final selection by the President, in the capacity of Visitor of Central University.
Ceremony Details
The awards shall be presented by the President of India at the time of Annual Conference of the Vice Chancellors of Central Universities or in the Visitor’s Conference held annually.
Benefits
- Citation and cash reward will be presented to the awardee. The total value of the cash reward will be ₹2,50,000/-
- If there are two or more recipients, the cash reward is subject to the condition that, each awardee will receive a minimum of ₹1,00,000/-
Eligibility
- All faculty members and students of all the Central Universities will be eligible for the Visitor’s Awards.
Application Process
- Registration:
- Step-1: Visit the awards.gov.in.
- Step-2: Click on the Registration button.
- Step-3: Choose the type Individual or Organization.
- Step-4.1: Under the Individual category provide the following details.
- Name as per Aadhaar/Valid Identity Proof.
- Date of Birth.
- Nominator/Applicant Type.
- Mobile No.
- Email ID.
- Aadhaar Number.
- Step-4.2: Under Organization category provide the following details.
- Type of Organization.
- Name of the Authorized Person as per Aadhaar/Valid Identity Proof
- Date of Birth.
- Brief Description about the Organization (100 Words)
- Designation
- Mobile No.
- Email ID.
- Aadhaar Number.
- Step-5: Submit.
- Apply:
- Step-1: Visit the awards.gov.in.
- Step-2: Click on login button on awards.gov.in/Login portal and login using the credentials.
- Step-3: From the list of awards, select scheme name, then click "Nominate / Apply Now".
- Step-4: On the next page, fill in all the mandatory fields in the online application form, and then click "Submit".