UGC Invited Information for Maulana Azad National Fellowship from CSIR & UGC NET Minority Candidates

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited online information from minority candidates who had appeared for UGC NET and CSIR NET June 2019 and December 2019 exams.

As per UGC, the online information has been invited to identify candidates belonging to Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsi), Buddhist, Christian, and Jain communities and offer them Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) 2019-20.

However, these candidates must be pursuing full-time/regular MPhil/Ph.D. degree courses in streams such as Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Engineering. 

Candidates belonging to minority communities (mentioned above) who have qualified CSIR NET and UGC NET June 2019 exams for eligibility of Assistant Professor only and not for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) have to fill the mandatory information in the online proforma available on the official website of UGC – ugcnetonline.in. 

The information submitted through any other means would not be considered as valid.

Candidates can submit the required information latest by June 30, 2020. 

For candidates who cleared the CSIR NET and UGC NET December 2019 exam, there is no need to fill the online proforma regarding their minority status, as their minority status has already been provided by them at the time of submission of UGC NET application form and CSIR NET application form.

Candidates shortlisted for ‘MANF’ will be granted a maximum duration of two years to complete the MPhil fellowship or submit a dissertation, whichever is earlier. 

While the duration of the fellowship will be five years for candidates pursuing M.Phil and Ph.D. or only Ph.D. 

The Students shortlisted for MANF will get Rs 25,000 for the initial two years of Junior Research Fellowship and Rs 28,000 for the remaining tenure.