Siddaganga Institute of Technology (Tumkur)

Academic Excellence

Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT) is a private college in Tumakuru, Karnataka, India. It is run by the Sri Siddaganga Educational Society.[3] It offers 13 undergraduate,13 postgraduate and 16 PhD programmes.

Ranking

Research

The management introduced this scheme of granting financial assistance to the faculty members to pursue Ph.D programme for a period of three years, extendable for the fourth year with 75% of their gross salary since 24/04/1992. The deputation allowance was revised to 65% of gross salary in 2011. After completion of Ph.D work faculty member has to re-join for work.

All the faculty members availing this facility are required to given an undertaking on a stamped paper stating that they will serve SIT for a period of 5 years after completion of Ph.D.

Any faculty who discontinues the Ph.D programme, has to repay the amount of allowance he/she taken in one lump sum with 12% interest.

Incentives for faculty: To motivate the faculty members to pursue research activities, the management sanctioned incentives for publishing articles in journals/conference which are indexed by Scopus/Web of Science databases, writing Books, Book Chapters and obtaining Patent with Siddaganga Institute of Technology affiliation

Seed / Start-up research grant to young /new faculty members

The management has sanctioned

• Seed money is given as research grant to young/new faculty members to pursue research in their areas of interest. Using this seed money the required equipment to start the research can be procured.

• Any shortage of funds for procuring equipment from sponsored research grant is also sanctioned.

Extension of Research Assistantship to Full-time Ph.D. Scholars from the institute fund:

The proposal of extending research assistance for full time Ph.D scholars from the Institute fund was presented to Governing Council. The status of research, scope of the proposed assistance and the process of selection of research scholars were briefed. After discussion, the council resolved to extent research assistantship of Rs.10,000/- per month to full time Ph.D scholars.

• The management, Sree Siddaganga Education Society (SSES), approved the proposal for extending Research Assistantship to Full-time Ph.D. Scholars from the Institute fund for 24 research scholars every year.