No AIEEA UG this year, agriculture admissions through CUET, decides ICAR
Vagisha Kaushik | March 2, 2023 | 09:07 PM IST | 2 mins read
ICAR has decided to admit students to 20% All India Quota seats in agricultural universities through CUET UG 2023 instead of AIEEA UG 2023.
NEW DELHI : The Indian Agriculture Research Institute (ICAR) has decided to offer admission to undergraduate programmes in agriculture and allied subjects through the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate (CUET) UG 2023 for the academic year 2023-24. No All India Entrance Examination for Admission (AIEEA) UG will be conducted this year for admission to UG programmes at agricultural universities. The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the decision today.
“It has now been decided by the ICAR that admission to the specified UG courses hitherto being done through ICAR-AIEEA, will be done through Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG for the academic year 2023-24. Hence, there would be no ICAR-AIEEA (UG) for admission to UG courses in Agriculture and Allied subjects for 20% ICAR All India Quota Seats, for the academic year 2023-24,” said NTA in an official notice.
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Till 2022-23, admission to bachelor degree programmes in agriculture and allied sciences (other than Veterinary Sciences) for 20% of the agriculture university seats (100% seats in RLBCAU Jhansi, NDRI Karnal, IARI New Delhi and Dr RPCAU Pusa, Bihar] used to be through AIEEA-UG exam.
“However, ICAR-AIEEA (PG) 2023 and ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD)-2023 will continue to be conducted by NTA, separately, as in earlier years. Candidates who are desirous of applying for ICAR-AIEEA (PG)-2023 and ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD)-2023 are advised to be in touch with the NTA website www.nta.ac.in / https://icar.nta.nic.in for further information,” NTA added.
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CUET UG 2023 registration is open from February 9 till March 12 upto 9pm. Candidates will be able to pay the application fee till 11:50pm on March 12. CUET 2023 will be conducted from May 21 onwards.
“Candidates are advised to visit the website of ICAR www.icar.org.in and read the Prospectus/Information Bulletin on the details such as eligibility as regards age, passing/appearing in qualifying exam, minimum marks in the qualifying exam, relaxation thereof, subject combinations which they are required to appear in CUET(UG), reservation, admission procedure, etc. regarding admission to UG programmes and be clear before applying for the CUET (UG) – 2023,” NTA further said.
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