Evaluation of the Thesis/ Award of the Degree
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The Ph.D thesis shall be evaluated by three external adjudicators nominated by the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor from a panel of ten names. One of the ten adjudicators included in the panel shall mandatorily be from abroad. The panel shall be submitted to the Dean, Research, by the Supervisor through the Dean of the School. The panel shall be submitted within one week of submission of the thesis.
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The adjudicators of Ph.D thesis shall be asked to indicate clearly whether they recommend:
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the award of the degree for the thesis on the basis of its present form subject to the satisfactory performance of the candidate at the viva voce examination, or
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revision and resubmission of the thesis, or
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rejection of the thesis.
- The adjudicators shall also indicate whether they recommend publication of the thesis in deserving cases.
- The recommendation of the adjudicators shall be accompanied by a detailed report.
- Once the reports of the adjudicators are received by the Controller
of Examinations they are placed before the Review Committee
consisting of
- the Dean, Research
- the Dean of the School concerned
- the Supervisor
- a faculty representative belonging to the SC/ST Category
- The Dean, Research, shall convene this meeting. The Review Committee shall consider the reports and make suitable recommendations to the Controller of Examinations for further action.
- If all the three adjudicators have unanimously recommend the thesis for award of the degree, a date for the viva-voce examination will be fixed. One of the three external adjudicators will be selected by the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor as examiner for the viva-voce examination.
- The degree of Doctor of Philosophy shall be awarded only if:
- the thesis is unanimously recommended for the award by all the three adjudicators and
- if the candidate defends the thesis satisfactorily at the public viva-voce examination.
- The viva-voce examination shall be conducted by a Board of Examiners which shall consist of one of the External Adjudicators and the Supervisor.
- The viva-voce examination shall be held in public with two weeks' advance notice. The reports of the adjudicators will be given to the scholar before the viva-voce examination without disclosing the names of the adjudicators.
- In cases where the reports of the adjudicators of the thesis are not unanimous, i.e. where two of the adjudicators recommend the award of the degree while the third adjudicator recommends revision and resubmission, it will be open to the Review Committee to (i) call for revision and resubmission of the thesis or (ii) to send the thesis to a fourth adjudicator whose decision shall be taken to be final. The fourth adjudicator in such cases shall be chosen from the original panel submitted by the Supervisor and shall be nominated by the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor. In case the adjudicator is not available or is not willing to evaluate the thesis, the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor may appoint another adjudicator from the original panel submitted by the Supervisor or request the Supervisor for an additional panel.
- In case two adjudicators recommend revision and resubmission of the thesis, the Review Committee shall call for revision. The candidate shall be asked to revise and resubmit the thesis within a maximum period of one year or earlier (as decided by the Committee). After revision the thesis shall be checked with the anti-plagiarism software before submission. The revised thesis, after being duly certified by the Supervisor, shall be sent back to the adjudicator(s) who called for revision.
- In case one (or more) of the adjudicators reject the thesis, the thesis will be sent to a fourth examiner, whose decision shall be final.
- The date on which the results are approved by the Hon'ble Vice Chancellor will be treated as the date of the award of the PhD Degree.
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