Research productivity is of paramount importance for the reputation of any educational institution. KMV has recommended to its Faculty a number of guidelines to ensure that the conduct of a research is of high quality and of ethical standards. KMV expects its faculty members and students to comply with set policies diligently.

Research Committee

1.	Prof. (Dr.) Atima Sharma Dwivedi	Director KMV, Chairperson
2.	Dr. Jatinder Pal	Department of Economics (Dean Research)

1. To develop comprehensive document on research policy
2. To promote research among faculty and students
3. To organize research promotion activities such as workshops, seminars and conferences

Committee Members:

1.	Dr. Neetu Chopra	Department of Physics (Incharge)
2.	Dr. Gopi Sharma	Department of Physics
3.	Dr. Natasha Sharma	Department of Mathematics
4.	Mrs. Tank Sinderpal Kabal singh	Department of Chemistry
5.	Dr. Davinder Singh	Department of Physical Education

Responsibilities

1. To create a corpus for research and development from government, industry, and other funding agencies.
2. To look into the possibilities of in-house funding.
3. To setup Digital Library & Information, Quantitative Methods & Data Analysis, Analytical and Consultancy Services.

Committee Members:

1.	Dr. Pardeep Arora	Department of Computer Sci (Incharge)
2.	Dr.Rashmi Sharma	Department of Commerce
3.	Dr. Harpreet Kaur	Department of Faison Designing
4.	Dr. Ashish Raina	Department of Hospitality and Tourism
5.	Mrs. Hema Khurana	Library

Responsibilities
1. To develop connection with already well established RDC
2. To identify and develop collaborative research with other national and international institutions inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, and multidisciplinary research.

Committee Members:

1.	Dr. Archana Saini	Department of Zoology (Incharge)
2.	Dr. Narinderjit Kaur	Department of Chemistry
3.	Dr. Rupika	Department of Hindi
4.	Dr. Gopi Sharma	Department of Physics
5.	Dr. Pardeep Arora	Department of Computer Sci. & IT

Responsibilities

1. To assign various research activities to faculty and students
2. To monitor and oversee research progress, coordinate program, manage and facilitate optimizing resources, timely review of research activities for completion of the projects as per schedule.
3. To ensure that all the research labs in the institution fulfill the norms of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and Safety

Committee Members:

1.	Dr. Ravi Khurana	Department of Computer Sci. & IT (Incharge)
2.	Dr. Narinderjit Kaur	Department of Chemistry
3.	Dr. Ekta Saini	Department of Philosophy
4.	Dr. Simerjeet	Department of Fashion Designing
5.	Mrs. Vibhuti Kalia	Department of Textile Design & Apparel Technology

Responsibilities

1. To comply with ethical codes of research and publishing practices
2. To procure and manage plagiarism check mechanism
3. To sensitize the research community about dubious research, publishing practices and predatory journals.
4. To sensitize and guide to the faculty and students to procure IPRs

Committee Members:

1.	Dr. Harleen Singh	Department of Physics (Incharge)
2.	Dr. Rashmi Sharma	Department of Commerce
3.	Dr. Manmohan Singh	Department of Physics
4.	Dr. Natasha Sharma	Department of Mathematics
4.	Dr. Iqbal Singh	Department of Political Science

Objectives

• To create an enabling environment within the KMV to foster a research culture.
• To create, maintain and enhance infrastructure to enable conduct of state-of the-art research
• To ensure adequate support to faculty, researchers and students in their research activities through internal and external funding.
• To ensure publications in quality journals indexed in Scopus/Web of Science and/or with impact factor.
• To encourage faculty to undertake interdisciplinary and socially useful research with potential for commercialization.
• To establish Research Centres within the institutions and extend research consultancy to outsiders.
• To encourage the faculty to enter research collaborations and linkages nationally and globally.

Guidelines and Instructions

• A research forum will be organized once in a month. Each department, especially post graduate departments, will showcase their respective research. The investigators, along with their students working under seed money grant, will present their ideas, findings and experiences. Research forum will also organize invited talks periodically on research methodology, IPRs and research orientation.
• The appointments and promotions will be linked to research and academic activities and strictly in accordance with UGC/Government ordinances.
• Members of the faculty should undertake research leading to quality publications capable of generation of Intellectual property rights with potential for commercialization and with social relevance.
• Research activities of teachers, research fellows and students will be supported through the grants from central, state government agencies and college funds.(for detail see Seed Money Policy).Â
• It will be ensured that research papers are published in UGC approved Journals preferably with Impact Factor. Faculty can explore the Scopus to find list of journals for their respective subjects.
• Research should be promoted at Departmental level in collaboration with students. Departments should publish journals having research papers by faculty as well as students.
• Research Award for Faculty and Students
• In case of travel from project funds, for distance more than 500 KM air fare can be availed.
• To attend seminar/conference/workshops duty leave applications, along with acceptance of letter/invitation letter, should be submitted to Research cell, IQAC one month prior to the seminar/conference/workshops. Certificate of participation must also be submitted to Research Cell, IQAC after attending the conference.
• Workshops/interactions on research methodology should be organized to promote research.
• Website for online journals should be actively used.

Kanya Maha Vidyalaya seeks to strengthen research and innovation activities in the college by motivating teachers and students who are not getting external funding. For this, it is desirable to have Seed money scheme. This will enable the faculty and students to engage in research work until sponsored projects from outside agencies are secured.

Eligibility

• Faculty should be working fulltime with the college and should have at least M. Phil degree.
• They have to sign an agreement that He/she will continue to work with the institution till the project is completed. In case the PI is leaving the institute, then he/she must deposit the granted seed money amount and assets created thereon to the office before leaving the institute.
• The PI should not be availing another grant from external agency for the same project.
• The PI should publish at least one research papers along with the names of co-investigators in UGC approved list of Journals.
• Seed money will be provided for only one project/scheme to an individual.
• The department of PI should have basic infrastructure to support research.

Money Grant

All the faculties including Social Sciences, Commerce, Languages, IT, Performing Arts and Sciences can avail seed money grant for research projects. One faculty member must choose two students as team members and proposal can be submitted to meet Recurring expenses, and/or Non-Recurring. Applications will be screened by expert committee in Dean Research office and short listed applicants will be asked to make presentations. Based on recommendations of expert committee seed money will be allocated up to Maximum Rs.30, 000 per project. One team can submit one project proposal only. Different documentation formats associated with project can be availed from Dean Research and can also be downloaded from college website. Selected Principal Investigators will have to submit progress report at the end of each semester. Duration of project will be of 1 year and extendable if required depending on progress made.
The funds will be released in two parts. First part 50% to be released at the time of sanction and the second part will be given only after recommendations by the mid-term review by the expert committee.

Non-Recurring Grants

• Equipment (Minor equipment only)
• Books and Journals

The equipment as well as books & journals grants may be utilized to procure the essential equipment and books & journals needed for the proposed research work. The equipment and books & journals acquired by the Principal Investigator under a Project must be deposited to Institution after the completion of the project.

Recurring Grant

• Hiring Services
  This is meant for specialized technical work, such as sample analysis, for which the University/Institution either has no infrastructure or such services are available on payment basis.
• Contingency
  The admissible contingency grant may be utilized on spares for apparatus, photo-stat copies and microfilms, typing, stationary, postage, internet, fax, computation and printing needed for the project. Expenditure towards the audit fee may also be claimed under contingency head.
• Special Needs
  Assistance may be provided for any other special requirement in connection with the project which is not covered under any other ‘Head’ of assistance under the scheme.
• Chemicals and Consumables
  To meet expenditure on chemicals, glassware and other consumable items
• Travel and Field Work
  The amount allocated under the head travel/field work is to be utilized for data collection and collection of other information such as documents and visit to libraries within the general scope and sphere of the ongoing project. This should not be used for attending conferences, seminars, workshops and training courses etc. They may also avail special casual leave/duty leave for field work/collection of data as per rules. This grant is not meant for lodging in case of outstation visits.

Session 2020-21

Session 2021-22

Seed Money

Session 2022-23

The institution provides seed money to its teachers for research

Session 2024-25

Seed Money

Session 2022-23

Session 2023-24

Session 2024-25

Session 2025-26

Minor Research Projects

• In each year faculty will be given “Award of Excellence in Research” of Rs. 10000/- approximately. Research outcome will be evaluated as per latest CAS UGC guidelines. Only those research activities will be considered for award where the researcher has acknowledged KMV as their working institution. Senior and junior categories will be decided according to Nature of job of the applicant.
• Awards will also be given separately/ award of Rs. 2000/- to UG and PG students under Faculty of Languages, Science, Social Science, IT and Performing Arts. Each faculty will short list the research activities of students and submit the same to the research committee.

Researchers must in all areas of their research demonstrate Honesty and integrity. All the research activities of faculty in each area should be of good quality adhering to highest standards of ethics. The college encourages publications in journals indexed in Scopus/Web of Science. Faculty/students/research fellows must submit the undertaking that research work has not been published/presented/communicated elsewhere and all the citations are acknowledged carefully to avoid the issues involved in plagiarism.

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Unmeelan Session 2024

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