GL BAJAJ INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND

RESEARCH, GREATER NOIDA

Summer Research Project (SRP) Guidelines

for

PGDM Batch 2019-21

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 Index
Sr. no. Contents Page no.

1. Objectives of SRP 01
2. Guidelines for Students 01-02
3. Weightage for SRP Evaluation 02
4. Important Dates for SRP 03
Guidelines for Writing Summer Research Project
5. 04-08
Report
Guidelines for Summer Research Project
6. 09
Presentation
7. SRP Calendar 10-12

Annexure(s):
I. Format of Declaration by the Student
II. Format of Guide’s Certificate
III. Format of Acknowledgement
8. 13-19
IV. Student’s Weekly Performance Appraisal and
Weekly Log Sheet (Form-I)
V. Consolidated Student’s Performance Report by
Faculty Guide (Form-II)

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 Summer Research Project (SRP)

Every student has to undertake a Summer Research Project this year as per AICTE guideline in this
unprecedented situation and working from home. This year Internship is designed for students to research
into practical problems and challenges and attempt to develop the practical solutions during summer
break.

Objectives of SRP: Following are the intended objectives of Summer Research Project (SRP)

1. Will expose management students to the current external environment, which cannot be simulated
in the classroom and hence creating competent professionals for the industry.
2. Provide possible opportunities to learn, understand and sharpen the real time managerial skills
required at the job.
3. Exposure to the current technological developments relevant to the research area.
4. This research project enable the students to develop orientation towards real life situations,
challenges in society and various organizations in different sectors.
5. Gain experience in writing Technical reports/projects.
6. Promote academic, professional and/or personal development

This research project under faculty guide assigned with specific focus in areas of specialization of the
student for duration of 6 to 8 weeks. Topics of this research project are related to his/her subjects of
specialization invoking depth analysis through secondary sources and application of statistical tools
followed by logical probable solutions and recommendations.

Guidelines for Students

1. At the end of the first year the students are required to work on topic for a period of 6-8 weeks.
This gives an opportunity to the students to show their latent capabilities.
2. Summer Research Project (SRP) comprises of 200 marks that is equivalent to 6 Credits, which
means if a student fails to clear SRP he/she will be awarded Fail.
3. Faculty Guide will regularly guide the students during their SRP and also review performance on
weekly basis.
4. The students should follow the EIGHT WEEKS SRP CALENDAR (attached herewith) and
ensure the compliance with the same task.
5. The students should seek approval of Faculty Guide before getting the final print of SRP report.
6. All the students are required to submit two hardbound copies of the report (along with a softcopy
to the Faculty Guide).

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 7. All the research project reports should be bound in maroon leather and inscribed with golden
letters. The signature of the Faculty Guide should be sought before final binding of the report.

Forms for SRP:

In order to improve and strengthens the internship programs, the Faculty Guide will collect forms from
the students, which are provided to them at the beginning of the SRP. These forms are as follows:

Form-I: Summer Research Project Progress Report & Daily Log Sheet - To be filled by the
student and has to be sent to the respective Faculty Guide on weekly basis. (Attached as Annexure)

Form-II: Faculty Guide’s Feedback Form: To be filled by the concerned Faculty Guide after
completion of the Research Project Program (Attached as Annexure)

Weightage for SRP Evaluation

Components of Assessments Weightage

Summer Research Project Report 75 marks

Summer Research Project Presentation (Students are informed that 75 marks
SRP Presentation is Compulsory to get Promoted in Term IV. If you
fail to appear, you will have to reappear with your junior batch in
2021)

Form-I - Summer Research Project Progress Report & Daily 25 marks

Log Sheet
Form-II - Student’s Aggregate Performance Appraisal- by Faculty 25 marks
Guide through Feedback Form
Total 200 marks

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 Important Dates for SRP
Sr. No. Activity Date Day
1 Summer Research Project Starts May 04, 2020 Monday
2 Summer Research Project Ends June 27, 2020 Friday
3 Summer Research Project Report June 29, 2020– Monday-Tuesday
Finalization with Faculty Guide July 07, 2020

4 Summer Research Project Report July 15, 2020 Wednesday

Submission
6 Summer Research Project Report July 24, 2020 Friday
Presentation

Note:

1) The regular classes for Term IV are likely to start from July 01, 2020
(Wednesday).
2) There will be a panel of three expert members (Corporate Expert, Alumni
Member and Internal Faculty) for the evaluation of Summer Research
Project Presentation Examination.
3) “SRP Champ Awards” to three best Summer Research Project
Presentations will be given.

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 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT
(75 MARKS)

Instructions:

Each student should prepare two identical project reports, one of which must be submitted to the Institute
on July 15, 2020 (Wednesday). Page numbering should commence from the table of contents. The color
of the hard bound report has to be Maroon with Golden Printing. The specimen can be seen in the college
library.

REPORT FORMAT

The outcomes of research works are to be conveyed to end-users or recorded for future use. The research
efforts will be useful to the end-users only when they are documented in the form of reports. So, a
standardized format for the report will help researchers present their contributions and findings more
systematically.

The different items of a research report are presented below:

1. Cover Page
2. Introductory Pages
- Acknowledgement
- Faculty Guide Certificate
- Abstract
- Table of Content
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
3. Main Body
- Chapters
- Main Sections
- Subsections
- Footnotes

4. Bibliography

5. Appendices
Introductory Pages
Acknowledgements: In the process of carrying out any project, the students would have received help
from different persons and organizations. So, all those helps should be acknowledged under this heading.
In an academic research, a sample list of people who are to be acknowledged is as follows:

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 Director
 Faculty Guide
 The typesetting office and personnel.
Abstract: Abstract gives an executive summary or overview of the project report outlining the title of the
project, objective(s), shortcomings of existing literatures, need for further research, proposed measure of
performance and research methods, results of comparison and highlights of inferences as brief
conclusions
Table of content: Table of content is the catalogue of the project report, which summarizes every aspect
of the report.
List of tables and figures: In project reports, the data and results are presented in the form of tables for
quick grasp. Each and every table must be numbered. The numbering should be such that it is internal to
each chapter. For example, if the total number of tables in Chapter 4 is 20, then the numbering should be
from Table 4.1 to Table 4.20 and similarly for figures.

Text
Different items under 'Text' are Chapters, Main Sections, Subsections, and Conclusions.
Chapters: The text of the report should be divided into different chapters depending on the type of
project. In the case of survey based project report, the different chapters are as listed below:
1. Introduction
a. Introduction of Topic
b. Background & justification of the topic
2. Industry/Company Overview
3. Literature Review
4. Research Objectives and Hypothesis
5. Research Methodology
6. Data Analysis and Interpretation of Findings
7. Conclusions
8. Suggestions and Recommendations

Introduction: The chapter on introduction should begin with the origin and the development of the
project concept along with the most significant contributions in the past must be summarized in this
chapter. At the end of this chapter, the plan of project in the form of a flowchart should be presented.
Further, this chapter should give a lead for literature search.
Introduction to Industry: It focuses on background, Industry and Environment, product and services,
distribution network, market share status and relevance of the subject under study.
Literature review: Literature review is the crucial part of any research. This helps the student to avoid
reinventing past contributions and results. This focuses on the past literature in the field of research and
its classification under different angles.

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Objectives and hypothesis: Based on the direction of the literature review, the student should clearly
spell out the objectives of the research and related hypotheses. As mentioned earlier, hypothesis is an
assumption about the population where the truth of the assumption is not sure. The student should list a
meaningful number of hypotheses, which will be tested under the chapter 'Data Analysis’.
Research methodology: Methodology aims to finalize the activities of research design and data
collection procedure through online medium only.

After designing the questionnaire, the students should organize the data collection activity through online
survey only as per the assumed sampling plan and experimental design. Anyone or a combination of
primary data collection methods, viz., online survey and telephone interview and mail survey is to be
used in the study except personal interaction to ensure and follow the guidelines of social distancing in
the current situation of COVID-19.

Data analysis and interpretation: The data analysis can be classified into preliminary analysis and
hypotheses testing. This chapter deals with the application of statistical tools for the analysis of data and
making inferences.
In preliminary analysis, the data are presented in the form of charts and graphs to have insight into the
research problem. This helps the researcher come out with some inferences, but these are based on the
observations from the charts and graphs.
The second type of analysis is the testing of hypotheses. The different hypotheses which have been
formulated earlier are tested at this stage. This exercise will reveal certain underlying facts of the
research problem which will help the researcher formulate strategies for the operations of any business
system. This chapter will have a major subsection on results and discussions. In some cases, this section
deals with mathematical models and regression models, in addition to the above items.

Conclusions: The chapter on conclusions summarizes project findings, contribution of the study,
limitations of the study, and scope for the future research.

Suggestions and Recommendations: The student has to give his/her comprehensive views as suggestion
or recommendations to the based on the analysis of research on the problem area.

Bibliography
A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a systematic list of books and other works
such as journal articles. Bibliographies range from "works cited" lists at the end of books and articles to
complete, independent publications. As separate works, they may be in bound volumes such as those
shown on the right or computerized bibliographic databases. A library catalog, while not referred to as a
"bibliography," is bibliographic in nature. The references can be classified into journals, books,
magazines, newspapers, research studies, etc. These are illustrated below.

Journal articles: The articles which are taken from journals should be included in the bibliography as
per the following format.

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Author(s), year of publication, Title of the article, Name of the journal, Volume of the journal,
Issue number and page number

A few examples of journal publications are presented below. If the number of authors is more than two,
it is preferable to use et al. after the first author.

1. Panneerselvam, R. and C. Oudaya Sankar, (1993) 'New heuristics for assembly line balancing
problems', International Journal of Management and Systems, VOL. 9, No. I, pp. 25-36,

2. Panneerselvam, R. et al., (1990) 'Models for warehouse location problem', International Journal of
Management and Systems, Vol. 6, pp. 1-8.

Government publications

 Ministry of Law, Government of India, the Copyright Act,' 14 of 1957, Delhi, The Manager of
Publications, 1960, p. 10.

Books: If some of the items from a book are referred in a research, the format to include that book in the
research report is as given below:

Author(s), Title of the book, Name of the publisher, Place of publication, Year of publication.

Some examples of such references are as shown below:

 Gopal,akrishnan, P. and M. Sundaresan, Materials Management: An Integrated Approach,

Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, 1979.

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TYPING INSTRUCTIONS
After thoroughly checking the draft of the research report, it should be given for final typing. This section
deals with important instructions for typing the report. The different items which are to be concentrated
are paper, margins, indention, spacing between .lines and spacing within a sentence.
Paper: The quarto-size white thick unrolled paper is used for the final printing of the report. The printing
should be done on one side only.
Margins: The left margin and the right margin of the report should be 1.5 inch and 1 inch, respectively.
The top as well as bottom margin should be 1 inch. But, in the pages starting with a chapter, the top
margin should be 3 inch.
Indention: The paragraph can be classified into general and indented. The first line of general paragraph
is not indented, whereas in indented paragraph, the first line of the paragraph is indented by 10 spaces
from the left margin.
Spacing between lines the entire report should be typed with 1.5 inch except indented paragraphs, tables
and footnotes. The indented paragraphs, tables and footnotes are to be typed with single spacing. But
there should be double spacing between each neighboring pair of these single spaced items, that is,
between adjacent indented paragraphs as well as adjacent tables.
Triple spacing should be given for the following cases:
 Before each paragraph heading
 Before and after each centre heading, centre subheading, side heading and indented paragraph.

The draft of the report should be reviewed for an appropriate number of times so that the errors are
completely removed. While reviewing the draft, certain guidelines are to be followed, as indicated below:

 The text should convey the intended message.

 The report should be organized in hierarchical form with chapters, main sections, subsections etc.
 There should be continuity between chapters and also between sections as well as subsections.
 The abstract at the beginning should reveal the essence of the entire report which gives the overview
of the report.
 A reading of abstract and conclusion of a report should give the clear picture of the report content to
the readers.
 Each and every table as well as figure should be numbered and it must be referred in the main text.

 The report should have appropriate length. The number of Pages should be restricted to 50-75 pages.

Important Note:
The Faculty Guide has to be kept informed about the progress of the research work through official
email communication and the final report has to be hard bound in maroon color with golden text only

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after the draft has been approved.

GUIDELINES FOR SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT PRESENTATION

Presentation should be of 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes of questions round. Presentation

should focus on:

1. Introduction of Topic

2. Justification of Topic

3. Objectives of Study

4. Research Methodology

5. Major Findings

6. Recommendations

7. Conclusions

8. Reference List

Note:

1) There will be a panel of three expert members (Corporate Expert, Alumni and Internal
Faculty) for the evaluation of Summer Internship Presentation Examination.
2) Students are informed that SRP Presentation is compulsory to get promoted in Term IV.
If you fail to appear, you will have to reappear with your junior batch in Academic Year
2021-22.

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 SRP CALENDAR

Summer Research Project Weekly Bench Mark

May 2020
Sunda
y Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Topic finalization on Weekly Report
email with faculty Mail to Faculty
guide and Project Start Guide
Date

10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Introduction Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
and Guide & Share the
Literature written report
Review work in progress

17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Objective of the Weekly Report
study, Design Mail to Faculty
the Hypothesis Guide
Including Ch.-1
and Research
& Ch. -2
Methodology completion report

24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Questionnaire Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
designing Guide
& Including Ch.-1
To be approved by & Ch. -2 &
Faculty Guide Questionnaire

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Note:

i) Student is supposed to send e-mail on the said date to their Faculty Guide

ii) Faculty Guides are supposed to follow up on all areas mentioned above. In case of non-compliance by the
students, send immediate report to Director & SRP Coordinator and follow-up with the students.

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 SRP CALENDAR

Summer Research Project Weekly Bench Mark

June 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
 1 2 3 4 5 6
Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
Guide

7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Secondary Data Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
Collection and Guide Including
Online Ch.-3 & Ch.- 4
Survey(only completion report
online)

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Starting of Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
Data analysis Guide
by using
Statistical tools

21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Finding and Report Weekly Report
Mail to Faculty
conclusion Writing Guide
& Starts
Suggestions,
Bibliography

28 29 30
Draft report to Final Report
be shared with changes
Faculty Guide
and note the
review
comments
Note:

i) Student is supposed to send e-mail on the said date to their Faculty Guide.
ii) Faculty Guides are supposed to follow up on all areas mentioned above. In case of non-compliance by the
students, send immediate report to Director & SRP Coordinator and follow-up with the students.

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 SRP CALENDAR

Summer Research Project Report Weekly Bench Mark

July 2019
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4
Term IV Classes
Commence

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Summer Research Project Report Finalization with Faculty Guide

12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Final Submission
of SIP Report

19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Summer
Research Project
Presentation
(Evaluation
through Panel of
Externals)

26 27 28 29 30 31

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 ANNEXURE - I

Format of Declaration by the Student

DECLARATION BY THE STUDENT

I hereby declare that the work reported in the Summer Research Project entitled

“……………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………….” submitted at GL Bajaj Institute of Management and

Research, Greater Noida, is an authentic record of my work carried out under the guidance of

Prof./Dr. ………(Name of the Faculty Guide). I have not submitted this work elsewhere for any

other degree or diploma.

(Signature of the Student)

(Name of the Student)

GL Bajaj Institute of Management and Research, Greater Noida, India

Date: ………..

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 ANNEXURE - II

Format of Guide’s Certificate

GUIDE’S CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the work reported in the Summer research Project entitled

“……………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………..”, submitted by …………..(Name of the Student) at GL

Bajaj Institute of Management and Research, Greater Noida, India, is a bonafide record of his

original work carried out under my supervision. This work has not been submitted elsewhere for

any other degree or diploma.

(Signature of Faculty Guide)

(Name of the Faculty Guide)

GL Bajaj Institute of Management and Research, Greater Noida, India

Date:

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 ANNEXURE - III

Format of Acknowledgement

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I owe my gratitude to many people who helped and supported me during the 8 weeks of Summer
Research Project Program.

I am highly thankful to the Director [Director’s NAME], of the Institute for his support,
motivation and continuous efforts in providing us the better learning environment and
opportunities to groom ourselves as per the expectations of the corporate world. Without his
support, it would not be possible for us to successfully complete our Summer Research Project.

My sincere thanks to _________ [FACULTY GUIDE’S NAME], the Faculty Guide of the
project, for initiating and guiding the project with attention and care. He/ She has always been
available for me to put me on track from time to time to bring the project at its present form.

*My deep sense of gratitude is due to________________ [NAME] [DESIGNATION],

[COMPANY NAME WHERE THE PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN] [IF APPLICABLE] for
allowing me to carry out the Research Project at the organization and to be constantly available
to me for the period, for guidance. He/ She also helped me to see the subject of study in its
proper perspective. Thanks and appreciation is also due to the officials, employees and
respondents of [COMPANY NAME WHERE THE PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN], for their
support.

I also thank all faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant reality.

Signature

(Name of the Student)

Place:

Date:

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 *Note: If student is working from for any company then this part will be included.

ANNEXURE - IV

Form-I

G.L. Bajaj Institute of Management & Research

Plot No. 2, Knowledge Park-III, Greater Noida

SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT & DAILY LOG SHEET

PGDM Batch-2019-21

(To be filled by the student and has to be sent to the respective Faculty Guide on weekly basis
along with log sheets on email)

WEEK NO- ………. PERIOD: FROM………………….TO………………………..

Name of the Student:……………………………………………………Roll No.: …………..…

Title of the Research Project:

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

PART- A. SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT PROGRESS

(Furnish details related to following areas)

i. Research related work (Like- progress on Literature review,

Methodology, data collection, data analysis, Report writing etc):
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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ii. Organization related activities (Given by Industry Mentor If applicable):

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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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PART-B: Weekly Log Sheet

(To be filled by the student on daily basis and has to be sent to respective faculty Guide on
weekly basis along with weekly progress report)

WEEK NO- ………. PERIOD: FROM………………….TO………………………..

Name of the Student:……………………………………………………Roll No.: …………..…

Day Date Details of work done

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

ANNEXURE- V

Form -II
G.L. Bajaj Institute of Management & Research
Plot No. 2, Knowledge Park-III, Greater Noida

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 SUMMER RESEARCH PROJECT (SRP)
PGDM Batch-2019-21

FACULTY GUIDE’S FEEDBACK FORM

(To be filled by the concerned Faculty Guide after completion of the Research Project and Keep
SIP evaluation for submission to Examination department)

Name of the Student: …………………………………… Roll No.:

Title of the Research Project:………………………………………………………

………………………………………………………………………………………

PART- A ACADEMICS
Sr. Parameters for Evaluation Excellen Very Good Averag Poor
No. t Good e

1. Clarity of Concepts

2. Research Aptitude

3. Skills for Data Handling & Data

Analysis

4. Documentation & Report Writing

5. Report Presentation & Discussion

6. Eagerness to Learn

7. Initiative and Sense of

Responsibility and followed
timeline during project

8. Innovative Thinking

PART-B: Overall Remarks and Suggestions :…………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………………………………

………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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Name of the Faculty (Signature)

Date: