Abstract
After eight months of lobbying, doctoral and postdoc science and technology researchers in India will immediately get a hike in their stipends and scholarships of between 24 and 35%, the government has announced. Scholars there have not had a pay raise in half a decade. However, researchers, who recently protested in New Delhi, summarily rejected the government’s increase, saying it is far below the 80% boost they seek. Some vowed to continue a hunger strike. Under a Jan. 30 memo from the Ministry of Science and Technology, entrants to a PhD program, called junior research fellows during their first two years, will get a boost of 24%, with their stipends and scholarships rising from the current rate of ₹300,000 ($4,228) per year, set in 2014, to ₹372,000 ($5,243). Similarly, senior research fellows will get ₹420,000 annually, up from ₹336,000. Those with doctorates or three years of experience who are research
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