Uncertainty over NET ends, CBSE to hold test
New Delhi, April 26: Ending uncertainty over the National Eligibility Test (NET), the University Grants Commission has decided that the CBSE will continue to conduct the exam even as the board had earlier expressed inability to do so.
The NET is held twice a year in July and December for the grant of junior research fellowship and eligibility for assistant professorship in universities and colleges.
Qualification in NET is also a must for recruitment of teachers at colleges and universities.
The CBSE had last year approached the HRD ministry expressing its inability to conduct the exam due to capacity crunch as it was overburdened with other tests such as the JEEMAIN and NEET for undergraduate engineering and medical courses.
While the ministry had not issued any guidelines in this regard, the CBSE has not yet issued a notification for the exam scheduled in July, which is usually out by April first week every year.
Scores of students had protested outside the UGC last week demanding that the uncertainty over the exam be cleared and a notification be issued.