Respected Sir/ Maam I request the following information. 1. What are the roles and responsibilities of PhD research scholars enrolled in IITs as Institute scholar (Where stipend comes from govt fund) 2. What are the roles and responsibilities of Supervisor of an Institute PhD scholar enrolled in IIT. 3.Do supervisors get any remuneration for supervising institute scholars as salary/honorarium for supervision of institute PhD scholars. 4. Under the norm what is the category of tasks a PhD supervisor may ask their student to do. And what is the category of tasks PhD students may deny. 4. What is the ground on which student can change his/her PhD supervisor. Looking forword to your responce. If hardcopy responce to applications is not mandated by the norms, I shall prefer to get the responce over email, for saving the cost of papers and postal charges to the government/taxpayers. Yours Sincerely A. Halder