TSI Research Grant Award

The TSI research grant award will be given annually by the Telemedicine Society of India during the annual conference to a member of TSI on the basis of recommendations made by a selection committee appointed for the purpose.

Rules and Regulations

1. The award shall be called as “TSI Research Grant Award”.
2. The applicant should have attended at least 3 annual conferences of TSI during preceding 5 years (evidence to be produced).
3. The nominee should be life member of TSI for more than 5 years.
4. The application form is to be endorsed by at least 2 life members of TSI.
5. Preference will be given to (a) candidates having presented papers in national-level/state-level telemedicine/tele-health conferences—evidence to be produced (b) candidates having publications in telemedicine/tele-health journals—evidence to be produced.
6. The research project should relate to rural telemedicine application.
7. The project needs to be completed in 2 years and the termination report is to be submitted.
8. A separate account is to be opened to utilize the project fund. The financial grant will not exceed Rs.1,00,000. This would be released in 2 instalments. 1st instalment of Rs.50,000/- would be released within 4 weeks of selection and 2nd instalment of same amount would be released after submission of vouchers indicating expenses incurred pertaining to 1st instalment. All vouchers are to be signed by the principal investigator and co-investigators.
9. A committee consisting of president, hony. secretary, one past-president and one EC member shall scrutinize the application forms to select the meritorious candidate. The name of the selected candidate would be announced during the annual conference of TSI.
10. The candidate will submit the interim project report after one year and final report at the end of 2nd year.
11. The candidate should state clearly what he considers to be his/her claim to the originality of his/her project report.
12. The outcome of the research study is to be presented by the candidate himself/herself in the annual conference of TSI.
13. To provide incentives to more members, the person to whom the award has been given once shall not ordinarily be eligible for the award again.
14. Members interested to receive the research grant award shall submit their curriculum vitae along with the duly filled up application form and other enclosures so as to reach the Hony. Secretary, Telemedicine Society of India, Room No. 303, Second Floor, School of Telemedicine & Biomedical Informatics, SGPGIMS, Rae-Bareli Road, Lucknow-226014. The last date for application for TSI Research Grant Award will be 31 July of the respective year (edit deadline in admin as needed).

Postal submission address:
Hony. Secretary, Telemedicine Society of India, Room No. 303, Second Floor, School of Telemedicine & Biomedical Informatics, SGPGIMS, Rae-Bareli Road, Lucknow-226014