Financial Support

Grouping of Students:

Coaching may be organized by dividing the candidates into various groups, each consisting of not more than 25 candidates in each paper, and each group may be placed under the charge of one faculty member so that the responsibility could be fixed and the faculty members are in a position to develop rapport with the assigned group and monitor the progress of the students. Each institution is expected to cover a minimum of 100 candidates for each examination to be held in June and December every year to make the coaching classes viable and cost effective.

Deployment of Faculty Members:

The University may engage the services of motivated teachers in service and retired faculty members from the university or post-graduate departments of colleges, who volunteer to teach in the concerned subjects or papers. For coaching in Paper II and Papers III, the faculty member should not be less than the level of Senior Lecturer.

Co-ordinator :

One of the senior faculty members with high motivation and dedication, may be appointed as Co-ordinator. He/She will be responsible for maintaining co-ordination between different groups faculty members to ensure effective implementation of the coaching programme.

Classes and Method of Instructions

1. An advertisement may be issued, subsequent to the publication of the UGC advertisement in the news papers. Applications may be invited and selection of candidates for providing coaching will be done on the basis of a preliminary test.

2. Admission fees will be charged as follows:

   NET (Papers-I & II)	:	Rs.100/- for each paper
   Paper -III	:	Rs.250/-

   The above admission fee are nominal and should be charged from the candidates at the beginning of the course as a token of their involvement. However, in case of needy candidates, it may be waived. The fee can be taken in 2 or 3 installments from candidates who cannot pay in a single installment. The fee must be used for various needs of the coaching classes and providing study material to the candidates.

3. Coaching classes may be organized at different times such as during working days, or on holidays, or in vacations, depending on the convenience of the candidates as well as faculty members. Vacations may be utilized for admitting candidates from other universities. The timetable of coaching classes should be announced in the beginning of the classes.

4. The method of instruction should be through class work, tutorials, work assignments followed by discussion and face to face interactions. Candidates should be encouraged to form study groups to help one another. Audio-video aids should be used wherever possible. A great deal of voluntary effort should be promoted.

5. At least 50 clock hours of teaching should be organized for each subject or paper of 100 marks. After every 10 hours of teaching an examination should be conducted.

Attendance

The University will be required to maintain attendance registers for all candidates enrolled for the coaching classes as well as subject-wise results of tests, or other evaluation.

Infrastructure

The University will provide adequate furniture, classrooms, library facilities and other necessary infrastructure from its own resources for conducting coaching classes.

The UGC conducts NET examination in 88 subjects, which cover Arts, Humanities (including languages), Social Sciences, Computer Application and Electric Sciences. In the Science subject CSIR conducts NET Examination on behalf of UGC. NET Examination is conducted twice in a year, i.e. in June and December for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship.