new delhi delhi universitys institute of eminence ioe is working on creating a pool of talent that will help catalyse research in the university the pool will have postdoctoral fellows both from india and abroad who will work on topics like climate change and sustainability public health public policy and governance transnational affairs and skill enhancement and entrepreneurship development the maharishi kanad postdoctoral fellowship will be offered to scholars with excellent publication record elaborating on the title m k pandit ceo of ioe said maharishi kanad is supposed to have spoken about the centrality of physics much before germans and others the name has been chosen to honour him the last day to submit application is august 23there are subthemes within each broad topic for instance for climate change and sustainability there are six positions with subthemes such as oceanatmosphere interactions climate change and water resources sustainability and human health impacts of climate changepublic health also has six positions with subthemes such as social issues in public health and public health epidemiology for public policy and governance and transnational affairs there are five positions skill enhancement and entrepreneurship development have three positions with subthemes such as technologies and policies for drug discovery and development and intellectual property right lawsthe idea behind calling research scholars with good publication record is to enhance the publication profile of the university our aim is to create a pool of 70100 such scholars a good track record in terms of publication will be the sole criterion to get the fellowship said panditthe fellows will be given a grant of rs 1 lakh per month ioe will also provide them an annual research grant of up to rs 2 lakh in the science stream and up to rs 1 lakh for humanities social sciences law management etcthe duration of the fellowship a fulltime position will be initially two years which may be extended by one or two years subject to availability of funds and satisfactory performance of a fellow on the basis of an evaluation by an expert review committeethe selected fellows cant relinquish the fellowship before two years unless they accept a permanent position in any institution