a. A Panel of the Ten (10) external examiners along with their designation, contact number and email address shall be made by the Dean/Coordinator R&D for each Ph.D. course and out of which two will be appointed as thesis report examiner.
b. On receiving application/request along-with an abstract of the thesis from the research scholar duly certified by the Supervisor that his/her research work is complete and ready for submission, the Dean/Coordinator R& D shall sent the thesis to two selected examiner for their report.
However, the Dean R&D while approving the panel of examiners may ensure that the proposed examiners are from the area of specialization of the Ph.D. thesis.
The Thesis shall be finally referred to two examiners selected by the Vice-Chancellor from the panel drawn by Dean (R&D) out of which one shall be out of state.
The examiner(s) will state categorically in their reports whether inhis/her opinion:
Thesis should be accepted for the award of Ph.D. Degree;
OR
It should be referred back to Research Scholar for presenting it again in revised form; It should be rejected.
OR
The examiner(s) shall state reasons for approval or resubmission of the Thesis. If he/ she recommend resubmission, he/she shall specifically indicate what modifications he/she wants from Research Scholar to effect and incorporate in the Thesis.
The examiner for a Thesis shall indicate in his/her report whether the Thesis is fit for publication in its original or modified form. In the later case, examiner shall make definite suggestions for improvement.
If the examiners recommend the award of Degree, they may also give in their report a set of questions, which they would like to put to the Research Scholar at the time of viva-voce.
If the examiner(s) recommends resubmission with some modifications in the Ph.D. Thesis, the Research Scholar shall be asked to modify the Ph.D. Thesis and resubmit the same only once within 6 months, after having carried out all the modifications with a certificate from the Research Supervisor that all the modifications have been carried out.
A resubmitted Thesis shall be examined by the examiner(s) who evaluated the original Thesis unless any of them is unable or unwilling to do so. In such case substitute(s) shall be appointed from the panel by the Vice- Chancellor. The examiner(s) for the revised Thesis will only see whether the objections raised have been met or not.
If one out of two examiners recommend the Thesis as rejected, the Thesis shall be sent to third examiner for evaluation. The decision of the two examiners out of three shall be considered. A Research Scholar whose Thesis is rejected by two examiners shall not be awarded Ph.D. degree. However, the Research Scholar may apply afresh for admission to Ph.D. course.
The entire process of evaluation of Ph.D. Thesis shall be completed within a period of 6 months from the date of submission of Ph.D. Thesis by the Research Scholar.