NTA postpones Joint CSIR-UGC-NET exam due to ' unavoidable circumstances'

The candidates are advised to keep visiting the official website, NTA said

The National Testing Agency(NTA) on Friday announced the postponement of the Joint CSIR-UGC-NET exam. The exam was scheduled to take palce from June 25 till June 27. The Joint CSIR-UGC-NET is a test conducted to determine eligibility for junior research fellowship and assistant professor and admission to PhD in science courses.

In a release, NTA said the exam is being due to unavoidable circumstances as well as logistic issues."The revised schedule for the conduct of this examination will be announced later through the official website," NTA said in the release.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, in a post on 'X', said, "Yet another NTA exam postponed. This time it is the CSIR-UGC-NET. Clearly, NTA has become Narendra's Trauma Agency for youth."

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court Friday refused to defer the NEET-UG counselling process, scheduled to kick off on July 6, saying it is not an "open and shut" exercise, even as the political pot kept boiling over the controversy-ridden exam with the opposition attacking the Centre over alleged paper leak and other irregularities.

The CSIR-UGC-NET exam is conducted twice a year -- June and December -- in five subjects, including Chemical Sciences, Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Physical Sciences in computer-based format.

The National Testing Agency (NTA), under fire over the lapses in the conduct of NEET and UGC-NET, is gearing up to conduct on Sunday a retest for the medical entrance exam for 1,563 candidates who were earlier awarded grace marks to make up for the loss of time at six centres.

*With Agency Inputs