Ending a prolonged wait for the candidates hoping to be lecturers, the Higher Education Department of Uttarakhand Government has finally announced the much anticipated examination schedule of Uttarakhand State Eligibly Test (USET).
The examination would be conducted on March 1 and the Department has claimed that the results would be declared within fifteen days after the examination.
The Convener of the USET and the Vice-Chancellor of the Kumaon University Dr HS Dhami said that the examination would be conducted on March 1 in nine cities of State, which incloude — Nainital, Almora, Haldwani, Pantnagar, Pithoragarh, Roorkee, Srinagar, Haridwar, Dehradun, Gopeshwar and Uttarkashi. Dhami further imformed that the schedule of the examination was declared after a meeting of USET governing body at Haldwani on Saturday.
He informed that the meeting was attended by the Vice Chancellor of Doon University VK Jain, Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Open University Dr Subhash Dhulia, Director of College Education Jagdish Prasad and Secretary of USET PD Pant among others.
The candidates who wish to apply for the examination can download the application form from the official website of the USET. The candidates are required to send the application from December 15 to January 30.
The committee of USET has decided to hold examination for 27 subjects this time and due to no vacancy the University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to remove the subject of Public Administration this year.
The candidates of general category would have to deposit `900 as fee while the reserved category candidates would be required to submit a fee of `500. For eligibility for the post of lecturers and Assistant Professors the UGC has mandated either NET or eligibility of the State concerned.
It is worth mentioning here that the USET was pending for a long time as this examination was conducted only once after the State of Uttarakhand was created in the year 2000.