The state government is planning to bring uniform research guidelines for state public universities and it will be framed after a discussion with the universities. The aim is to provide better service to research scholars and maintain quality of research works.TheOdisha State Higher Education Council(OSHEC) will take the lead to frame the guidelines after holding meetings with the university vice-chancellors.

The guideline will address this issue. Universities will set a deadline for registration of students for PhD programmes and approval of the thesis in a time-bound manner to award degrees to scholars without much delay. It will also look into the matter related to use of anti-plagiarism Software and maintaining the quality of the research. Some universities are asking scholars to publish their research articles in the Scopus indexed journals, while others are advising somewhere else. After finding all these issues, we thought the council should bring a uniform guideline for the universities on this, said the council member.