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UGC Releases New Guidelines for Declaration of NET Results

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UGC has revised the criteria to be followed to announce the results of NET / SET from 2017. It has been decided by the UGC that only 6 percent of the appearing candidates should be declared qualified for eligibility for assistant professors.

UGC new guidelines for NET

1) Candidates must have appeared in all the three papers and secured at least 40 percent aggregate for General Candidates and 35 percent aggregate in all the three papers taken together for reserved candidates.

2) A minimum of 27 percent, 15 percent, 7.5 percent and 3 percent slots are reserved for OBC, SC, ST and PWD candidates respectively.

3) For example, if 600000 candidates appeared for NET / SET, 36000 candidates will be declared qualified for eligibility of assistant professors. The category wise slots in this case will 9720 OBC, 5400 SCs, 2700 STs, 1080 PWD candidates and 17100 General candidates.

Sri Chaitanya Vs Sri Gayatri Fight Over JEE Advanced Top Ranker 2017

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IIT JEE Coaching institutes in Chandigarh are fighting over JEE Advanced 2017 topper Sarvesh Mehtani. The coaching institutions Sri Chaitanya and Lakshya Institute (in alliance with Sri Gayathri Academy) are fighting each other claiming the credit of securing top rank and the matter has reached to the court.

Sri gayatri and Sri chaitanya
Corporate coaching centers, Sri Gayatri and Sri Chaitanya are fighting each other in court for the credit of JEE Advanced 2017 top rank. The AP based institutions are fighting for the credit in Chandigarh as the candidate belongs to Chandigarh.

Lakshya Institute has filed petition in court accusing Sri Chaitanya institute for using its trademark. The court has issued notices to Sri Chaitanya Educational Institute for allegedly taking claim for the success of JEE Advanced-2017 topper Sarvesh Mehtani, who was enrolled with Lakshya Institute.

Lakshya Institute has clarified that Sarvesh has been studying in their institute for the past four years. Its teachers have joined in Sri Chaitanya after JEE exam, the reason for the latter claiming the top ranks.

Lakshya has been claiming the results for its trademark coaching while Sri Chaitanya claiming the top rank on the grounds of their teachers who trained the students previously. The court has to decide the matter in further hearings.