Ministry of Human Resource Development Japanese Government Scholarship

Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Department of Secondary & Higher Education
ES.3 Section


JAPANESE GOVERNMENT (MONBUKAGAKUSHO: MEXT)

SCHOLARSHIP-2012

LAST DATE: 23rd May 2011

Applications are invited on plain paper from Indian nationals residing in India for the award of scholarship for Master’s and “Research Studies/Ph.D” offered by the Government of Japan for the year 2012. No scholarship will be offered for Post Doctoral studies (After Ph.D or at final stages of Ph.D). The subjects in which scholarships will be awarded are given below:


1) Information Technology (2) Optical Fiber Communication (3) Quality and Reliability Engineering (As applied to various systems like Electricity & Power, Railways, Heavy Industry, Heavy Electronics) (4) Electronics & Communication (5) Robotics (6) Laser Technology (7) Bio-technology (8) Japanese Language and Literature (9) Fisheries (10) Japanese Studies (11) Earthquake Engineering (12) Environmental Science (13) Architecture (14) Aerospace Engineering (15) Material Science/Engineering.


DURATION: About two years.



VALUE OF SCHOLARSHIP: Each grantee will be provided monthly with 150,000 Yen (Research students Course), 152,000 Yen (students enrolled in a Master’s program or a professional degree program), or 153,000Yen (students enrolled in a doctoral program) (an additional monthly stipend of 2,000 or 3,000 Yen may be provided to those undertaking study research in specially designated regions). However, these amounts are subject to change depending on the annual budget of each year. The scholarship will not be paid to a grantee that takes a leave of absence or is long absent from his/her university.

PASSAGE COST: Economy class air-ticket from the international Airport closest to his/her place of residence in India to Narita International Airport, Japan and back will be provided by the Japanese Government.

AGE LIMIT: Applicant must have born on or after April 2, 1977 ( Below 35 years as on 1st April, 2012).


ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS:


i) Japanese Language:



a) Students who are enrolled in the Post Graduate Degree course in Japanese Language from a recognized university.


OR



b) Students who have completed undergraduate Degree Course in Japanese Language from a recognized university.



OR



c)Students who have completed undergraduate degree course in any subject from recognized university and who have completed Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) conducted by Japan Foundation and have completed at least 3 years of Japanese Language study from a recognized university/institute in India.

ii) Japanese Studies:

Masters Degree in the relevant field in the subject mentioned above with minimum 65% marks.

Essential Qualification

iii) For Master’s Degree

Bachelors Degree in the relevant field with minimum 65% marks. The candidates should obtain their marksheet and degree on or before on 1.4.2012.

iv) For Research Studies/Ph.D

Masters Degree in the relevant field with minimum 65% marks. Candidate having practical research/teaching/work experience after obtaining the prescribed qualification as on 1-4-2012 would be preferred.

Candidates should apply for the above scholarship on a plain paper preferably typed or neatly hand written with a recent passport size photograph, in the prescribed Performa to “The Section Officer, ES.3 Section, Department of Higher Education, West Block-1, Wing-6, 2nd Floor, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066” by 23rd May 2011 Applications can also be submitted online at the Website www.sakshat.ac.in  by 23-05-2011 upto 5.30 PM. Relevant documents must be furnished by post before closing date. The hardcopy of on line application must be submitted on or before 30.05.2011 duly mentioned the registration No. of on line application. The applications received after closing date will not be considered.


For further details please visit here http://www.education.nic.in/scho_announcements/Japanese2012.asp