Visitor's Award 2023

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 Visitor's Award, there are three categories: 

 

1. Visitor's Award for Innovation

2. Visitor's Award for Research

• Visitor's Award for Research (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
• Visitor's Award for Research (Physical Sciences)
• Visitor's Award for Research (Biological Sciences)

3. Visitor's Award for Technology Development

Eligibility

All faculty members and students of all the Central Universities will be eligible for the Visitor’s Awards.

Decoration

Citation and cash reward will be presented to the awardee. The total value of the cash reward will be Rs 2.5 Lakhs.

If there are two or more recipients, the cash reward subject to the condition that, each awardee will receive a minimum of Rs 1 Lakh

No. of Awardees

There will be only one award in each category/sub category.

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 own 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 as 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 Visitor’s Conference held annually.