CSIR UGC NET for Junior Research Fellowship and Lectureship to be Held on 22nd Dec, 2013

CSIR will hold the Joint CSIR-UGC Test on 22nd December, 2013 for determining the eligibility of the Indian National candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) NET and for determining eligibility for appointment of Lecturers (NET) in certain subject areas falling under the faculty of Science & Technology.

The award of Junior Research Fellowship (NET) to the successful eligible candidates will depend on their finding admission/placement in a university/ national laboratory/ institution of higher learning and research, as applicable.

The final result of this Single MCQ test may be declared sometime in the month of March, 2014 and fellowship to successful candidates will be effective from 1st April, 2014 with the validity period of 2 years for joining the fellowship under CSIR Scheme.

Subjects of the Test

The Test will be held in the subjects as given under:

1. Chemical Sciences
2. Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
3. Life Sciences
4. Mathematical Sciences
5. Physical Sciences
6. Engineering Sciences

Eligibility

A candidate needs to fulfill the following criteria to be eligible for the test.

• All the candidates should have a degree under the subjects mentioned above.
• Candidates with BS-4years/BE/BTech/BPharma/MBBS/Integrated BS-MS/MSc or equivalent degree with a minimum aggregate of 55% for general and OBC and 50% for SC/ST, physically/visually handicapped.
• Candidates enrolled for M.Sc or having 10+2+3 years of qualification can also apply for the Test under RA (Result Awaited) in subjects mentioned above during the academic Session 2011-2012.
• Candidates appearing under RA category need to submit the attestation format (given at the reverse of the application form) certified by the Head of the Deptt./Institute over his/her signature and rubber stamp (with address and name) from where the candidate is appearing or has appeared in the final year(Last Semester where Semester system is there) M.Sc. or equivalent degree examination.
• These candidates shall be admitted to the Test provisionally. They shall only be considered eligible for JRF-(NET)/LS-(NET), if they are able to produce the proof of having passed the Master’s Degree examination in the relevant or related subject with the requisite percentage of marks within two years.
• The age limit to appear for JRF is 19 years to 28 years as on 1st July 2012. The upper limit is relaxed up to five years for SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer), physically/visually handicapped and female candidates.
• There is no upper age limit for LS.
• PhD degree holders who had passed Master’s degree before 19th September 1991 is 50% can only apply for lectureship.

How to apply for CSIR UGC NET 2013:

• Interested and eligible candidates may apply online through a link available at CSIR, HRDG website: www.csirhrdg.res.in.
• In order to apply online, the candidates are required to download Bank challan Performa from the above website and then deposit the requisite examination fee in any of the Indian Bank branches throughout the country.
• Candidates after successfully submitting application online are required to take print out of the Application Form, paste his/her recent black & white photograph, put his/her signature at the required space, attach requisite certificates and send alongwith CSIR marked copy of fee deposited Bank Challan in an envelope super scribed with Subject Code, Centre Code & Medium Code to Sr. Controller of Examination, Human Resource Development Group, Examination Unit, CSIR Complex, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi-110012 so as to reach on or before 27.08.2013 (02.09.2013 for remote areas).

Important Dates

Examination Centres

The test will be held at 26 Centres spread all over India, as specified below:

Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Guntur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Karaikudi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Nagpur, Pilani, Pune, Raipur, Roorkee, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and Varanasi.

With inputs from official website of notification for Joint CSIR-UGC Test For JRF and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET)

Related Links:

CSIR UGC NET (December 2013): Scheme & Syllabus