How to Process JRF in Delhi University

This is written mainly for those scholars who are new to Delhi University and who may not have many friends who may be able to guide them in processing JRF. I am in the Philosophy Department; and unless one is the Science dept the process may be the same. I faced some hardship in processing the JRF due to ignorance; and so it was after seven months of having registered that I began to enjoy the Fellowship.

Once you get registered for M.Phil/Ph.D, get your ID card made and an SBI Bank account opened, if you don't have one. Then go to the Scholarship Cell with your JRF award letter from the University Grant Commission. The Scholarship Cell is situated in second floor of the the Tagore Hall. (If you don't know Tagore Hall, ask anyone loitering near the Central Library where it is.) The Scholarship Cell would provide you a form to fill and to submit it to them along with certain documents like fee slip, JRF award letter from UGC etc. Once you have filled the form and attached the documents, get yourself a xeroxed copy of each document for future reference. Keep the xeroxed copies with you, and submit to the Scholarship Cell the form and the attached documents. Then wait for few weeks. ( You can also run around to open an SBI Bank account during this time when you wait for the letter from the Scholarship Cell so that you save time.)

After few weeks you are supposed to get a letter from the Asst Registrar of the Scholarship Cell. This 'award letter' will be sent to the HOD of your department and also to the Section Officer of Finance Branch-X, Delhi University. Take this letter of yours to the Finance Branch-X, which is located on the third floor of the New Administrative Block, near the Dean Office. They will then give you a form to be filled, which you would have to write your SBI Bank account number, besides other details. If you stay in a rented room like me, you can get a form from the Book Section, which is located on the ground floor, near the Canteen. Take these two forms and get your Supervisor and HOD signed, wherever they are to sign, and submit it to the Finance Branch-X, along with certain documents which they would tell you. Before you submit these forms, don't forget to take a photocopy of each document for your future reference. 

Once you've submitted these forms, the money would come into your account into two-three weeks time.