{"id":156458,"date":"2021-04-21T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=156458"},"modified":"2021-04-21T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:18:20","slug":"ugc-net-postponed-in-view-of-covid-19-situation-union-edn-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/04\/21\/ugc-net-postponed-in-view-of-covid-19-situation-union-edn-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UGC-NET postponed in view of Covid-19 situation: Union edn minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 20 Apr:<\/strong> The UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) scheduled to be held from 2-17 May has been postponed in view of the Covid-19 pandemic situation, union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal &#8216;Nishank&#8217; announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to an order by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the revised dates for the exam will be announced later, at least 15 days before the examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Keeping in mind the safety and wellbeing of candidates and exam functionaries during Covid-19 outbreak, I have advised @DG_NTA to postpone the UGC-NET Dec 2020 cycle (May 2021) exams,&#8221; Nishank tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Looking at the present situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and also taking into account the safety and wellbeing of the candidates and examination functionaries, it has been decided to postpone the UGC-NET exam,&#8221; the order by the NTA stated. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 20 Apr: The UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) scheduled to be held from 2-17 May has been postponed in view of the Covid-19 pandemic situation, union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal &#8216;Nishank&#8217; announced on Tuesday. According to an order by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the revised dates for the exam will be announced later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}