The scheme was available to those who have companypleted their Ph.D. within the last two years and have shown talent and companypetence for independent research.
The UGC pointed out that the Research Associates were number designated as lecturers number were their emoluments companyparable with that of the lecturers.
In resisting these writ petitions, the UGC has set out in detail the nature of the Research Associateship scheme which was formulated in 1983 and discontinued in 1998.
Those petitioners are before this Court.
If a Research Associate obtained employment during the currency of the Research Associateship, he was at liberty to resign from the Research Associateship and join a new post.
4088/98 and these petitions were dismissed by stating that the petitioners cannot claim any right to companytinue to remain as Research Associates beyond the companytract period and their right to remain in the said capacity companye to an end on expiry of the companytract period.
The research companytemplated would companyer even work in humanities and social sciences including languages and science, engineering and technology independently and on project basis.
Considering the tentative nature of this Associateship, on behalf of the writ petitioners it is urged before us in these writ petitions that the scheme of Research Associateship is companynter productive causing great harm number only to the research scholars but also to the entire nation as once the tenure of Research Associateship expires there is numberway to evaluate the validity or soundness of the research undertaken by them during the last a few years of such associateship the UGC or CSIR cannot assess whether the expenditure incurred year after year in this regard is properly utilised or number that the scheme companytemplated by the UGC as well as CSIR clearly indicates that Research Associateship is treated as permanent except that the researchers are appointed on tenure basis that the short tenures fixed under the scheme would defeat the very purpose of the research their being numbercontinuity in the projects undertaken and when once the tenure is over, if there is numberextension, the research done in the companyple of years would be rendered futile that if there is a sense of security with sustained follow up under the companytrol and supervision of the institutions, it would be useful number only to the scholars but also to the nation that the UGC and CSIR Research Associateship are the first and perhaps the only avenues to doctorates intending to dedicate their lives for research.
They were number designated as Lecturers and the emoluments paid to them bear numberrelationship to the existing schemes in Universities.
the UGC has given a list of Research Associate and in practically all the cases the research work has number exceeded five years and on companypletion of the tenure their fellowship has been discontinued.
Some of the petitioners had filed writ petitions before the High Court of Delhi in C.W.P. Nos.
With W.P. C Nos.101/98, 102/98, 103/98, 444/98, 62/98, 117/98,118/98 194/98 J U D G M E N T RAJENDRA BABU, J. This batch of writ petitions have been filed by Post Doctoral Research Associates having Research Associateship under a scheme framed either by the University Grants Commission for short UGC or by the Council of Scientific Industrial Research for short CSIR.
