UGC NET & CSIR NET: Scribe Rules for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities, PwBD

UGC NET 2022 and CSIR NET 2022: Check here the scribe rules for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) category candidates who will appear for the UGC NET and CSIR NET exams.

UGC NET & CSIR NET Scribe Rules

National Testing Agency (NTA) organises the UGC NET and Joint CSIR UGC NET examinations every year. Both the CSIR NET and UGC NET exams are conducted to determine the eligibility of candidates for Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) posts in Indian universities and colleges.

The UGC NET 2022 exam is underway and Phase 2 will be held from September 20 to 30, 2022. On the other hand, the CSIR NET 2022 exam will be held from September 16 to 18, 2022.

Candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) who have opted for scribe in the UGC NET application form 2022 or CSIR NET application form 2022 and will be appearing in the respective examinations will be given scribe facility as per the following rules:

• Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act (2016)
• Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules (20 17)
• Guidelines dated August 28, 2018, for conducting examination for PwBD

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Who are eligible for Scribe Facility?

The scribe facility for PwBD category candidates will be given in the category of:

• Blindness
• Locomotor disability (both arms affected-BA)
• Cerebral palsy

In case of any other category of PwBD, the provision of scribe will be allowed on production of the certificate from the Chief Medical Officer/ Civil Surgeon/ Medical Superintendent of a Government Health Care Institution (as per the proforma prescribed under the Guidelines dated August 28, 2018.

In such a scenario, the CSIR NET or UGC NET scribe facility will be provided if the concerned person has physical limitations to writing and the scribe facility is necessary to write an examination on his or her behalf.

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Arrangement of Own Scribe for UGC NET/ CSIR NET

A PwBD candidate can bring his or her own scribe or can avail the same from the NTA as well. In case a candidate is bringing his or her own scribe, the qualification of that scribe should be one step below that of the candidate taking the UGC NET or CSIR NET examination. Such candidates need to submit the details of their own scribe at the UGC NET exam centre 2022 or CSIR NET exam centre 2022, as per Appendix-II of the said Guidelines.

Arrangement of Scribe from NTA for UGC NET/ CSIR NET

If a PwBD candidate has opted for a scribe from the NTA, then he or she needs to visit their allotted exam centres two days prior to the exam to meet the scribe. The details of the allotted exam centre will be provided on the UGC NET admit card 2022 or CSIR NET admit card 2022.

In such a case, the qualification of the scribe will not be more than the minimum qualification criteria of the examination. However, the scribe qualification shall not be less than matriculation as well.

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