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JMI Research Scholar Rubina selected for Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF)

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NEW DELHI :

It is a matter of great pride for the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) that Ms Rubina, a PhD research scholar from the Department of Electrical Engineering has been selected for the coveted Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) under the Direct Entry category for May-2021 drive.


JMI Vice Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar congratulated the scholar for this award and hoped she will justify the fellowship with quality research outcome.


Prof. Munna Khan, HOD, Department of Electrical Engineering said that she will receive a monthly fellowship of Rs 70, 000 for first two years, Rs 75,000 for 3rd year, Rs.80,000 for the 4th year and the 5th year respectively. In addition to this, the scholar is also eligible for a research grant of Rs. 2 lakhs per year (Rs 10 Lakhs for five years) under the scheme.


Ms Rubina’s research will be based on “Development of Smart Capacitive Sensors for Condition Monitoring of Electrical Apparatus in Smart Grids”.

The main objective is to fabricate capacitive sensors with superior static and dynamic characteristics for real time online health monitoring of key electrical apparatus such as transformers, and gas insulated switchgears (GIS). The capacitive sensors are extensively used for sensing applications but mostly parallel plate and planar interdigital capacitive sensors with nanostructure sensing films. Although nanostructure materials are nowadays widely used for sensing applications and the stability of the nanomaterials is an important issue for real time applications.

Researchers mostly pay attention to the sensitivity which can be easily
addressed with modern advanced IC devices but degradation of sensor performance due to stability is difficult to address by the ICs.


Ms Rubina, is pursuing PhD under the supervision of Prof. Tariqul Islam in the Electrical Engineering Department, JMI.

She will work on “Design, Modelling and Fabrication of High Performance Capacitive Sensors for Non-contact Measurement of Some Important
Parameters in Smart Grids”. The sensors for smart grids need to face adverse conditions such as high temperature corrosive environment with electromagnetic noise interference.

The research work will pave a way for the development of novel capacitive
sensors which will be cost effective, easy to install and fulfil the application needs.

Rubina thanked Prof. A. Q. Ansari, the coordinator PMRF scheme, HOD, Dean F/O Engg. & Technology, the supervisor and other members of the department who supported her for this achievement.


It is worth mentioning that under the Lateral Entry Scheme of the December 2020 drive, six research scholars of JMI were selected for PMRF. Five out of six are girl students.

The main motivation for this attractive fellowship scheme is to attract the best talent into research thereby realizing the vision of development through innovation. The scheme was announced in the Budget 2018-19.

source: http://www.jim.ac.in / JMI / by Public Relations Office, JMI / December 04th, 2021

Ghazal maestra fighting ill-health, penury

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Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

Zarina Begum undergoing treatment at a private hospital
Zarina Begum undergoing treatment at a private hospital

Lucknow :

As her handicapped middle-aged son, limps on his crutches up the staircase to the third floor of a private hospital in Lucknow’s River Bank Colony  area, Zarina Begum,  the last living court singer of Awadh, is being administered injections at the intensive care unit (ICU) where she is fighting both penury and ill-health.
Disciple of legendary Ghazal singer Begum Akhtar, 88-year-old Zarina Begum, who was the first recipient of the ‘Begum Akhtar Ghazal Award’ started by UP government in 2015, has been paralytic for the past nine years. It was on the day of Holi, on March 1, that she got extremely unwell, when her family took her first to Civil hospital and later shifted her to the private facility on March 5.

As a case of right side hemiparesis (pertaining to paralysis) she was diagnosed with urinary tract infection, altered sensorium, anaemia, fever, vomiting and weakness, to be looked after in the ICU under conservative treatment. The expenses estimate given by the hospital for her five-day treatment till now is around Rs 1 lakh. And this is not the final bill.

The last living singer of the ‘Baithak’ style of musical rendition, Zarina Begum has no income, a rented home in Aminabad’s Hata Khuda Baksh area and a deluge of medical bills.

“We are extremely worried about the money. How will the expenses be borne? I don’t even have Rs 400 in my pocket,” said her daughter, Rubina.  “My brother Ayub does not have his leg down the knee ever since he lost it to an accident almost 20 years ago. Ammi has been on the bed for the last many years, and can still recall ghazals and couplets,” she added. But it is not just the medical bills that the family is worried about.

Kin seek pension for Zarina Begum
The last government after many perusals had taken up her treatment expenses immediately. But what we also seek is pension for Zarina Begum, a job for Rubina and a battery driven rickshaw that Ayub can drive so that even after hospital treatment, there is some money to feed the mouth and bear regular medical bills,” said Zarina’s son-inlaw Naved.

There is almost a monthly Rs 10,000 expense that the family manages somehow for procuring medicines. “The home, a tin-roofed rented place might soon be sold by the tenant, which could leave us on the roads,” said Naved.

“My own health, as also Rubina’s, has gone down with the continued strain we bear in keeping up with the treatments. I have sent several letters of requests to the state government, but there has been no response on the pension or the battery rickshaw or anything to do with employment,” he said.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News / by Yusra Hussain / TNN / March 08th, 2018