In recent times it has been observed that the registration for PhD is continuously increasing. Probably PhD being a higher and prestigious degree, majority of the professionals are getting interested in upgrading their profile to attain higher positions. Availability of financial assistance to young professionals by qualifying the Junior Research Fellowship exam of UGC provided further impetus to researchers. Above all, UGC’s insistence on qualification of PhD for higher positions is also prompting the professionals to obtain PhD degree out of necessity. But this quantum jump has affected the quality of research as till recently in many universities, single supervisor was guiding large number of candidates even without having adequate research facilities. But now UGC has fixed the number of candidates to be guided by professor (8), associate professor (6) and assistant professor
(4) for guiding the PhDs