DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

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DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
plagiarism to check the originality of research work of its scholars. The
software (URKUND) is accessible to all the desirous faculty members
of university.
10. The University encourages faculty and students to participate in
conferences, seminars by providing them duty leave and financial
support.
3.3.2 Does the university have an Information Resource Centre to
cater to the needs of researchers? If yes, provide details of the facility.
Yes.
A Data-cum-Facilitation Centre has been established with the financial
support of Rs. 20 Lakhs by Director General Census Operations in
Uttarakhand. The Centre houses all the census data related to different sectors
in it for use of researchers of the university as well as researchers from outside
the university. Further, the University has a good and resourceful library and
digital information on the available knowledge resources is being circulated by
email to all the users.
3.3.3 Does the university have a University Science Instrumentation
Centre (USIC)? If yes, have the facilities been made available to research
scholars? What is the funding allotted to USIC?
The University does not have University Science Instrumentation Centre as
yet. As soon as all the Science Schools starts functioning the USIC will be
established. However, there is a plan to establish a Central Instrumentation
Facility in each Science School. The SENR already has a well equipped state
of art Central Instrumentation Facility, which has also been made accessible to
the newly established School of Physical Sciences.
3.3.4 Does the university provide residential facilities (with computer
and internet facilities) for research scholars, post-doctoral fellows,
research associates, summer fellows of various academies and visiting
scientists (national/international)?
Yes, the University has provided residence to the permanent faculty to
facilitate academics and research in its campus. All the visiting and adjunct
faculty are provided twin room apartment in faculty lodge. The research
scholars have been provided single room hostel facility in the campus. All the
residential facility is equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity and computers.
3.3.5 Does the university have a specialized research centre/
workstation on-campus and off-campus to address the special challenges
of research programmes?
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