ATTENDANCE POLICY

Guidelines for the attendance criteria of the Ph.D. scholars
This following guidelines shall be applicable for all the full time and part time Ph.D. scholars, which would supersede all the previous guidelines.

1) For Full time scholars:
  • All full time Ph.D. research scholars shall interact with the supervisor in the Weekly Interaction time slots (4 in every month) in offline mode.
  • All full time Ph.D. research scholars need to mark Biometric attendance for minimum 100 Hrs in a month (during 8 am to 6 pm) i.e. In case there are 4 months between the schedule of 2 evaluations then the scholar have to mark attendance for min. 400 Hrs. Also, a scholar shall have to be present in the University for min. 10 Days in the month (scholar shall have to spend min. 5 Hrs on a particular day for that to be counted towards the min. requirement of 10 days).
  • All full time Ph.D. research scholars need to maintain at least 75% attendance in Weekly Interaction as well as Biometric Attendance.
  • Ph.D. research scholars availing government scholarship need to mark biometric attendance on all working days with a provision of 30 duty leaves in a year.
  • Bonus attendance criteria shall be as applicable as per University Policy.
  • Duty Leaves shall be applicable for Ph.D. scholars as per University Policy.
  • In case of a particular tenure a Ph.D. Scholar publish a paper in the Scopus Indexed Journal/ Conference or have a granted Patent in his/her name or have a Funded Research Project then the attendance criteria shall be waived off for the upcoming evaluation. However, the benefit of a particular research achievement shall only be claimed once towards exemption from attendance.
2) For Part time scholars:
  • All part time Ph.D. research scholars need to maintain at least 75% attendance in weekly interaction time slot out of 2 interaction slots scheduled by the respective supervisor in a month since the last evaluation till the registration in upcoming activity.
  • Bonus attendance criteria shall be as applicable as per University Policy.
  • Duty Leaves shall be applicable for Ph.D. scholars as per University Policy.
  • In case any of the evaluation of part time Ph.D. scholars gets Not Recommended then that Ph.D. scholar shall have to be present in the University for 7 days (in physical mode) before appearing in the next evaluation.
  • In case of a particular tenure a Ph.D. Scholar publish a paper in the Scopus Indexed Journal/ Conference or have a granted Patent in his/her name or have a Funded Research Project then the attendance criteria shall be waived off for the upcoming evaluation. However, the benefit of a particular research achievement shall only be claimed once towards exemption from attendance.

Note:
Ph.D. research scholars for whom the Pre-Submission evaluation is recommended, will not be required to abide by any attendance criteria, as mentioned above.