I. The fellowship will be awarded on the basis of the recommendation of the Expert Committee constituted by the Commission. The decision of the Commission will be final. Result shall be published on the UGC website. Award letters can be downloaded from UGC online application portal. ii. If the Fellow is availing any other fellowship/ project from any organization at the time of selection, she shall be required to surrender one award. iii. The Commission reserves the right to withdraw/cancel the award without assigning any reason.

The candidate should join the fellowship within 3 months from the date of issue of the Award letter, failing which the award will be treated as canceled.

On the progress of research work, the research fellow shall submit a yearly progress report duly signed by Guide and forwarded by HOD and Registrar/Principal/Director of the concerned institution to the identified agency

The fellow who is awarded Swami Vivekananda Fellowship for Single Girl Child for research in Social Sciences will not accept any other fellowship or hold any appointment, paid or otherwise, or receive any emoluments, salary, stipend, etc. from any other source during the tenure of the award (except in case of academic leave of one year).

The fellow desirous of leaving the research mid-way without completing research degree will have to submit her resignation duly forwarded by the concerned University/College/Institute to the designated agency under intimation to UGC office. The grant will be released upto the date of resignation tendered by the fellow.

UGC may terminate fellowship of any candidate in case of : i. If the fellow is found to be ineligible to receive the fellowship, at any point of time during the entire duration of the fellowship. ii. Any false information furnished by the applicant. iii. Misconduct of fellow. iv. Unsatisfactory progress of research work of the fellow. v. Any other fellowship/scholarship is drawn from other source(s) during the tenure of the fellowship.