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EVALUATION (a) Evaluation of Thesis (i) Each examiner will be requested to submit to the COE, a detailed assessment report and his recommendations on a prescribed proforma within 3 months of the date of receiving the thesis. (ii) In the event that the assessment report is not received from an examiner within 4 months, the Vice-Chancellor may appoint another examiner from the panel of examiners for evaluating the thesis. (iii) The examiners shall be required to state categorically whether in their individual opinions, the thesis should be: a) accepted for the award of Ph.D. degree, or b) referred to the candidate for presentation in the revised form, or c) rejected. The examiner shall state the reasons for recommending resubmission/rejection of the thesis. If resubmission is recommended, the examiner shall specifically indicate the modifications that need to be made in the thesis by the candidate. (iv) On receipt of reports from all the examiners, these will be placed before the Research Degree Committee. The RDC shall peruse the reports and advise one of the following: 1) If the examiners are unanimous that the thesis be accepted for award of the degree, the candidate be required to appear for oral defence. 2) If the examiners are unanimous that the thesis be rejected or that the thesis be submitted in a revised form the result be declared accordingly, or the candidate be informed to submit the thesis in a revised form. 3) If there is no unanimity between examiners, an additional external expert shall be appointed as examiner to examine the thesis. The report of the additional examiner, alongwith all the earlier reports shall be considered by the RDC, and a recommendation made either to accept the thesis for award of degree or reject the same. (v) In the event of the candidate being required to submit a revised thesis, he/she shall, submit the same within a period of one year from date of communication in this regard from the COE. However, in exceptional circumstances this period may be extended by BOS by one more year but the total revision time will not exceed two years. The revised thesis shall be sent 214 for assessment to the original panel of examiners. In the event of one or more or original external examiners not being available, an additional external examiner may be appointed. (b) Oral Defence (i) A candidate, whose thesis is recommended for acceptance in accordance with provision of clause 14(a)(iv) on the basis of thesis evaluation, shall be required to defend his work/thesis orally before a duly constituted committee, hereinafter referred to as Oral Defence Committee (ODC), during working hours of the University at the University premises. Any deviation from this should have prior permission of Vice-Chancellor. (ii) ODC shall consist of the Dean of the concerned School, the supervisor(s), and one external examiner to be appointed out of the external examiners by Vice- Chancellor. If none of the external examiners is available for the conduct of the oral defence, an alternative external examiner shall be appointed by Vice- Chancellor for this purpose only. The external examiner invited for oral examination shall submit his report in the prescribed proforma to the COE. (iii) On the completion of all the stages of examination, COE shall recommend to RDC to approve one of the following: (a) that the degree be awarded, (b) that the candidate be re-examined at a later specified time in a specified manner, (c) that the degree not be awarded, In case of (a) and (b), the COE in consultation with Dean shall also provide to the candidate a list of all corrections and modifications required in the thesis, including suggestions made by the examiners during the thesis evaluation. The candidate shall thereafter submit two hard-bound copies of the thesis, incorporating all necessary corrections/modifications.