Online Submission of Ph.D Thesis

Submission of Thesis

All PhD scholars are required to make a pre-submission seminar before the members of the Board of Studies / the School Board, and students of the University two months before the submission of the thesis. The suggestions given at the seminar may be incorporated in the thesis before the final submission. A letter regarding the completion of pre-submission seminar must be submitted by the Supervisor to the Controller of Examinations, with a copy to the Dean, Research.
Requests for approval of the title of the thesis should be made two months before the submission of the thesis. Titles shall be approved by the Chairperson, Board of Studies/School Board on the recommendation of the Supervisor and the Advisory Committee. A letter approving the title of the thesis will be issued by the Dean, Research.
No scholar will be permitted to submit the thesis before the completion of six semesters.
No scholar shall be permitted to submit the thesis unless the Supervisor is satisfied that the thesis is worthy of consideration for the award of the PhD Degree.
Before the submission of the thesis, a soft copy of the thesis should be submitted to the Supervisor for plagiarism check. The Supervisor is required to run the thesis through the anti-plagiarism software provided by the University, and submit a report to the Office of the Controller of Examinations. No thesis which shows more than 10% similarity with unacknowledged sources will be allowed to be submitted. In case plagiarism is detected, the scholar will be required to revise and resubmit the thesis to the Supervisor for a re-check.
In the Plagiarism check if any text strings/figures are found to be copied or used without proper acknowledgement of the source, the thesis has to be thoroughly revised, and checked again by the software. The percentage of similarity in the thesis shall not exceed 10%.
When the thesis is ready for submission, the scholar shall submit an application for the award of the Degree to the Controller of Examinations. The application should be accompanied by:
- A copy of the title page, abstract and the table of contents of the thesis along with a softcopy of the thesis.
- Soft-bound copy of the thesis (for the Supervisor) along with a PDF copy of the same on an external drive. In addition to this, one hard bound copy shall be submitted for the Library at the time of viva-voce examination.
- A certificate from the scholar countersigned by the Supervisor to the effect that the thesis embodies original work done by the scholar during the period of study and that the thesis is acceptable in all respects and that it may be considered for the award of the Ph.D degree.
- An anti-plagiarism certificate signed by the Supervisor supported by the anti-plagiarism report.
- Recent passport size photograph of the scholar.
- A ‘No Dues Certificate’ from relevant departments and sections of the University.
- A copyright declaration by the scholars giving the University permission to print/make photocopies of the thesis and/or parts thereof and make digital use of it for academic purposes.