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New Delhi, Updated on Nov 10, 2020 09:28 IST

As per the UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain, the disbursal was delayed due to some technical issues.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) will disburse the pending emoluments to Junior Research Fellows (JRF) and Senior Research Fellows (SRF) within a week, according to officials.

As per the UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain, the disbursal was delayed due to some technical issues. "The technical issues which had delayed the disbursal have been resolved and along with the existing emoluments, the backlog would also be cleared and the fellowships would be deposited in the respective accounts within this week," he said.

The JRF scheme of the UGC is for candidates who qualify in the National Eligibility Testing (NET) and the UGC-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joint test and the tenure of fellowship is initially for two years.  While a JRF scholar gets Rs 31,000 per month, an SRF scholar gets Rs 28,000. In the June 2019 UGC-NET exam, 51,000 candidates qualified for assistant professors, while 4,756 of them qualified for JRF. 

University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) is a national-level exam conducted in order to select candidates for only Assistant Professor or both Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Assistant Professor in Indian universities and colleges. Till June 2018, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted NET on behalf of UGC. However, from December 2018 onwards National Testing Agency (NTA) started conducting the UGC NET exam.

The UGC NET 2020 exam is being conducted from September 24 to November 13. While UGC NET 2020 exam is still not over for few papers, NTA has released the provisional UGC NET 2020 answer key. Candidates can check the answer key on the official website of the exam by logging into their registered accounts.

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