Summary:
Though the revised stipends were announced, many of us continue to receive stipends of last year or early 2019. The enhanced stipends were to be credited to the accounts of research scholars starting January 2019. Nearly four months after India’s key research funding agencies agreed to a 24 per cent hike in the stipends of thousands of research scholars in the country, the revised emoluments are yet to come into effect. IISER Pune, which has already received MHRD’s intimation, has proposed to roll out the revised stipends from June. “We have not got any intimation about the enhanced stipends and we continue to receive the stipends as per the earlier pay scale..