"Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana" (KVPY)

The "Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana" (KVPY) is a program started during 1999 by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to encourage students of Basic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to take up research careers in these areas.
The aim of the program is to identify and encourage talented students with aptitude for research.This program strives to assist the students to realises their potential and to ensure that the best scientific talent is developed for research and growth in the country. Generous scholarship and contingency grant is provided (up to the Pre-Ph.D. level) to the selected students.
The KVPY is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. The program is administered by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore), through the overall control of the Chief Executive (SID). The selection of students from those who are studying +1, +2, any U.G. Program including First/Second year Engineering/Medicine are carried out by IISc (Bangalore), IIT-Bombay (Mumbai), and ICMR (New Delhi), respectively, in association with two Zonal Centres one at Kolkata (Indian Institute of Science Education Research, Kolkata) and another at Mumbai (HBCSE, TIFR). There are special groups or committees set up at IISc, IIT and ICMR which screen the applications, conduct interviews at various centres, make the final selection and attend to follow-up matters. The Department of Science and Technology - the nodal agency of the Government has entrusted the overall responsibility for organising the scheme to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and set up a National Advisory Committee (NAC) for overseeing its implementation. A Basic Committee and a National Scientific Committee has been set up to monitor various aspects, both administrative and academic, of the KVPY Program.
Though the KVPY fellowships are meant for students for high school, undergraduate and graduate studies in the fields of science, engineering and medicine. Here I am talking only about the students of class XI science stream.

Eligibility
Students enrolled in the XI Standard (Science Subjects) during the academic year 2009-2010 and have secured a minimum of 75% (65% for SC/ST) marks in aggregate in MATHEMATICS and SCIENCE subjects in the X Standard Board Examination. After scrutiny of application forms and based on the performance in the Board Examination, all the eligible candidates are called for a written aptitude test (multiple choice). The test is conducted at different centers across the country normally on the first Sunday of November month. Based on the performance in the aptitude test candidates are called for an interview which is the final stage of the selection procedure.

Fellowship

	Monthly Fellowship	Annual Contingency
After X Class	Rs. 4000	Rs. 12000
During B.Sc and 1st to 3rd years of Integrated M.Sc	Rs. 5000	Rs. 20000
During M.Sc and 4th and 5th year of Inegrated M.Sc	Rs. 7000	Rs. 28000

Continuation of fellowship
Annual renewal of fellowships will depend on maintaining good academic performance first class/60% in aggregate marks in the chosen stream and satisfactory performance in summer programs.

(KVPY Fellows in the Basic Sciences selected in XI Std (Stream SA) who opt out of the science stream at the end of XII Standard will forego the Fellowship and Contingency support.)

Privileges
Summer program is an important part of the nurture program for KVPY Fellow. These are meant to expose the Fellows to methods of scientific research and inculcate in them an abiding interest in doing scientific research. These are normally organised during the summer vacation, when KVPY Fellows spend one or two weeks in scientific institutions listening to lectures by experts in different fields of science, engineering or medicine, seems things in a research environment, watching scientists at work/science in action, interacting with scientists, visiting nearby scientific research laboratories and institutions, and exchanging views with other research students. Sometimes Fellows with specific interest are associated with individual scientists who talk to them about their interest, help them to clear their doubts, give them problem, to work out let them to do experiments, and tell them about the future scope in the area of their interest.

Other Privileges
An Identity Card is issued to each KVPY Fellows. Several national laboratories, universities and other institutions have agreed to extend special privileges like library, laboratory facilities to KVPY Fellows on production of the ID card.

This years KVPY interview are starting from today. All the best for the aspirants. Hope all of u will come out of this interview with flying colours.

We at Resonance, Kota conducted a two days extensive workshop for KVPY interview preparation. In this workshop 35 students participated. It included a session on how to face interview followed by a mock interview session in which subject teachers scrutinised the aspirants and judged them according to their reply and finally provided them the feedback. We also conducted a KVPY interview preparation workshop at Lucknow. Anybody who is appearing for KVPY interview this year and is facing any sort of problem in facing the interview can contact us at pccp@resonance.ac.in or call us at 0744-3204024.