New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) invites application from eligible candidates for Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) for Minority Students from Candidates of Minority Communities.
The UGC has been decided to identify the candidates for drawing fellowship under the scheme of ‘Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students’ for the year 2019-20 through the UGC-NET and Joint CSIR-UGC Test held in June 2019 and December 2019.
As per the Guidelines of this scheme, which are in public domain on the UGC website www.ugc.ac.in, the candidates belonging to Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsi), Buddhist, Christian or Jain communities constitute the target group under this scheme.
The candidates belonging to the above mentioned minority communities, who had qualified the UGC-NET or Joint CSIR-UGC Test held in June 2019 for Eligibility for ‘Assistant Professor / Lectureship Only’ and not for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) are requested to visit the UGC website www.ugcnetonline.in and fill-in the mandatory information in the online proforma specifically uploaded for the purpose.
As per the UGC notification, the candidates shall recall that information regarding their minority status had already been provided by them while filling their online application forms for UGC-NET / Joint CSIR-UGC Test held in December 2019. Thus, information regarding minority status is not being invited from the candidates qualified for ‘Eligibility for Assistant Professor Only’ in UGC-NET / Joint CSIR-UGC Test held in December 2019.
The UGC mentioned that the deadline for submitting the online proforma is 30 June 2020. The information submitted through any other means would not be considered as valid.
