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General Instructions and Guidelines for Provisional Registration in Ph.D.

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DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND CONSULTANCY

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION IN PH.D.
All the candidates, who are eligible for Provisional Registration, after clearing the interviews, or after this, can fill their Provisional Registration Form as per the following guidelines: 1. The Provisional Registration Form can be filled any-time, within the validity period of Interview Result (i.e. within 2 years, from the date of declaration of Interview Result). 2. If the Provisional Registration Form is filled two months before the start of any semester of regular courses running in PTU, as per the Academic Calendar, the candidate can start his/her Ph.D. course work from that particular semester. 3. The Provisional Registration Form is to be filled online, only by the eligible candidates, through already available log-ins at University website, under the link of Ph.D. Admissions. 4. Candidates are required to follow the following instructions, while filling-up the online provisional registration form: (a) Candidates are required to go through the Ph.D. Regulations (available in Ph.D. Admissions link at www.ptu.ac.in) carefully, before filling-up the online provisional registration form. (b) Log-in with your already available User Name and Password. (c) After log-in, at Home, click at the link for filling-up the Provisional Registration Form. (d) Fill your information in all the columns from Step 1 to Step 7, and click at Save, before moving to next step. Nothing is to be filled at Step 1, as this information is already available in database. (e) The list of University approved Supervisors with their Supervisor IDs, is available at University website. The Candidates, who have got the consent of Supervisor for their Ph.D. work, will have to obtain Certificate from Supervisor and from Co-supervisor, if any (Format is available at University website). (f) If the name of the supervisor is not there in the list, he/she may send the completely filled Supervisor Approval Form (Format is available at University website), to Dean (Academics). (g) The candidates will have to opt for the supervisor ID (or opt for Supervisor Approval Form attached, if Supervisor is not already approved), while filling-up the online Provisional Registration Form and all the details of already approved supervisor will automatically appear in the form. If the supervisor is not approved, the details of the supervisor and co-supervisor (if any) will have to be filled manually in the print-out of the Provisional Registration Form, by the candidate. (h) Candidate can make changes in the form, before locking it for printing, by again starting filling-up the form from Step 1 and then clicking at Update to save the changes made, at each step. (i) Candidates are required to check all the fields in the Form Preview carefully, before Locking it, for taking the Print-out of the Provisional Registration Form. After locking the Form, No changes can be made in the

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Form, by the candidate. If there is any problem in the online module, candidates can send their request to administrator at ptu.phd@gmail.com (j) The Provisional Registration Fee of Rs.10,000/- and Form Fee of Rs.50/- (Total Rs.10,050/-) is to be deposited at PTU, after getting the completely filled printed form checked by the dealing clerk, in the department of Academics at PTU. (k) The Fee Receipt No. and Date will be filled manually by the candidate in the Provisional Registration Form, after depositing the applicable fee in accounts section of PTU. (l) Provisional Registration Form (complete in all respect, alongwith the fee receipt and all the requisite selfattested documents) is to be submitted in the office of Dean (RIC), 3rd Floor, Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar-Kapurthala Highway, Kapurthala-144601. 5. Candidature of any candidate can be cancelled anytime, if any information provided in the Provisional Registration Form proves to be incorrect at any stage. 6. Candidates are required to be in touch with the University website (www.ptu.ac.in) for any general information. All the information related to Ph.D. Provisional Registration or Ph.D. Course Work Subject Allotment etc. will be sent at the registered e-mail IDs of the candidates. Therefore, the candidates are required to keep their registered e-mail IDs active, in order to keep the proper communication with the department. No separate letters will be sent to any candidate. Request for change of e-mail ID must be sent to the Dean Academics, PTU, in case, the candidate wants to update his/her e-mail ID. In such cases, the candidates are required to ensure themselves that whether the e-mail ID has got updated in the University Records or not. 7. As per Ph.D. Regulations of PTU, two subjects are being offered to the Ph.D. candidates, for the course work. One of the subjects shall be on research methodology, which is compulsory to all the Ph.D. candidates and for second subject, supervisor will send his/her recommendations, while considering the tentative topic and the area of the Research to be carried-out by the candidate. As per the recommendations of the supervisor for second subject allotment, the topic and area of research of the candidate, a committee of Chairman BOS or senior member of BOS and the Dean Research or his Nominee may approve this subject. The courses should be of post graduation level as per the PTU nomenclature. 8. To speed-up the process of subject allotment, candidates are required to contact their respective supervisor, to send the recommendations for the second subject of Ph.D. course work. The list of subjects, which will be offered at various Regional Centres of PTU, in the coming semester, is available at University website. The supervisors are required to send the recommendations (format attached at Annexure-A), regarding the two choices for second subject of Ph.D. Course work of his/her candidate from this list, alongwith the Provisional Registration Form. The subjects to be recommended are to be chosen by the supervisors, from various post-graduation level courses, already running at various Regional Centres of PTU or at any AICTE approved college, affiliated to PTU. If no relevant course of post-graduation level is running in PTU, like that of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics etc., the supervisor may propose the new subject name with complete syllabus (including the list of reference books), as per the topic and field of research of the candidate, which, if approved by the committee, will be further sent to BOS for approval.

General Instructions and Guidelines for Provisional Registration in Ph.D.

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9. On successful submission of Provisional Registration Form, the subject allotment e-mail alongwith Provisional Registration Number will be sent to the candidates, at their registered e-mail ID, before the start of coming semester. 10. Candidates will have to join the classes of course work, as per the subject allotment, intimated by the office of Dean Academics, PTU and the candidates will have to ensure that the respective Regional Centre or AICTE approved College, affiliated to PTU, has sent the report of their joining of course work. 11. After completion of course work, internal and external papers will have to be cleared by obtaining minimum grades in the papers, separately, as per the Ph.D. Regulations. 12. Successful candidates will be eligible for submission of synopsis and to pursue thesis work, as per the Ph.D. Regulations.

General Instructions and Guidelines for Provisional Registration in Ph.D.

PTU

PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

General Instructions and Guidelines for Provisional Registration in Ph.D.

PTU

Annexure-A

PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND CONSULTANCY Recommendations from Supervisor, for the subjects of Ph.D. Course work:
(to be submitted alongwith Provisional Registration Form)

Name of the Candidate Stream-Discipline Application ID of Candidate Tentative Topic of Thesis Area of proposed Research Work Name of 1 Compulsory Subject
st

: : : : : : Research Methodology

The following are the two choices for 2nd subject of Ph.D. Course Work for above said candidate, registering with me for Ph.D. Research Work in PTU: Name of 2nd Subject (1st Preference) Code of 2nd Subject Regional Centre, where sub. is running Copy of the Syllabus to be attached Name of 2nd Subject (2nd Preference) Code of 2 Subject Regional Centre, where sub. is running Copy of the Syllabus to be attached The above mentioned subjects (in the order of preference) are recommended for Ph.D. course work of the above said candidate, as the subjects are relevant to the tentative topic of thesis and the area of proposed research work.
nd

: : :

Course & Discipline, in which, sub. is running :

: : :

Course & Discipline, in which, sub. is running :

Signature of Supervisor

Name of Supervisor: Supervisor ID:

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