The "Kishore Vaigyanik ProtsahanYojana" (KVPY) is a program started
in 1999 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government
of India to encourage students of Basic Sciences to take up research
careers in Science. The aim of the program is to identify and encourage
talented and motivated students for pursuing a research career.
This program strives to assist the students to realise
their potential and ensure that the best scientific talent is groomed
for research and development in the country. Generous fellowship and
contingency grant are provided up to the pre-Ph.D. level to the selected
students. In addition, summer programs for the KVPY Fellows are
organized in prestigious research and educational institutions in the
country.
The Department of Science and Technology, the nodal
agency of the Government has entrusted the overall responsibility for
organizing the KVPY Program 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, look after both the administrative and academic aspects of
the KVPY Program.
