UGC-NET - cancelled a day after being conducted on 18 June - will now be held from 21 August to 4 September.
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The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday night, 29 June announced the new dates of cancelled and postponed examinations, including the UGC-NET, amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in their conduct.
The UGC-NET, which was cancelled a day after being conducted on 18 June, will now be held from 21 August to 4 September. The exam was cancelled after the Education Ministry received inputs that the integrity of the exam was compromised.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had said the question paper was leaked on the darknet and circulated on the Telegram app.
In a shift from the earlier pattern, the exam was conducted in offline mode this time and on a single day. However, the rescheduled exam will now be conducted according to the earlier pattern of Computer Based Test (CBT) spread across a fortnight.
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UGC-NET is a test to determine the eligibility of Indian nationals for the award of junior research fellowship, for appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to PhD in universities and colleges in the country.
The CSIR UGC-NET, which was postponed as a preemptive measure, will be conducted from 25 July to 27 July.
The National Common Entrance Test (NCET) for admission to the four-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) in select Central and state universities or institutions, including IITs, NITs, RIEs, and government colleges, which was postponed hours before its schedule on 12 June, will now be conducted on 10 July.
Additionally, NTA also confirmed that the All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test (AIAPGET) 2024 will proceed as planned on 6 July.
Amid alleged irregularities in NEET-UG, yet another exam conducted by the National Testing Agency, the Union government announced on 22 June that the probe into alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2024 will be handed over to the CBI for a comprehensive investigation.
A couple of days earlier, terming the leak of the UGC-NET exam’s question paper an “institutional failure, Dharmedra Pradhan had said the government would constitute a high-level panel to look into the functioning of the agency.
The NEET-UG examination is conducted by the NTA for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
(Edited by Neena with PTI inputs)
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