Thursday, December 27, 2012

Detail Procedure & Criteria for Qualifying UGC NET December 2012


UGC has posted the following in its website regarding the criteria of qualifying UGC NET to be held on December 30, 2012 . 

PROCEDURE CRITERIA FOR DECLARATION OF UGC NET RESULT:
This will comprise of following steps:

Step I:
Minimum marks to be obtained in NET for considering a candidate for the award of JRF and eligibility for lectureship:
The candidates are required to obtain following minimum marks separately in Paper-I, Paper-II and Paper-III as given below:


CATEGORY           Minimum Marks (%) to be obtained
PAPER – I PAPER – II PAPER– III
GENERAL 40 (40%) 40 (40%) 75 (50 %)
OBC(Non-creamy) 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 67.5(45%) rounded off to 68
PWD/SC/ST 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 60 (40 %)

Step II:
Amongst those candidates who have cleared step I, a merit list will be prepared subject-wise and category-wise using the aggregate marks of all the three papers secured by such candidates.

Step III:
Top 15% candidates (for each subject and category), from the merit list mentioned under step II, will be declared NET qualified for eligibility for lectureship only.

Step IV:
A separate merit list for the award of JRF will be prepared from amongst the NET qualified candidates figuring in the merit list prepared under step III.

Research Promotion Workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms in BESU, Howrah from 14-16 March 2013

Research Promotion Workshop on Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms will be held in BESU, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal from 14-16 March 2013. Teachers and Undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral students, and faculties of Computer Science and Engineering with background in  Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms can attend this workshop. Around 12 lectures will be delivered in the related area to the participants by renowned academicians. The registration is open from 21 December 2012 and its free. Only 100 participants will be selected for the workshop.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

IITs are accepting B.Tech for pursuing Ph.D

Till recently, IITs used to accept only M.Tech/M.E candidates for enrollment in their PhD program. BUt the recent trend of IIT Kharagpur and some other institutes suggests that IIT has decided in principle in "Catch them Young".... Some other institutes such as IIIT Delhi encourages B. Tech students to apply for its PhD program.

various PSU's trend to accept GATE and stop its written exam

Various public sector units such as IOCL, HPCL, Power Grid, etc are taking decisions to stop conducting its written exam for recruiting engineers and rely on the GATE score to call the candidates for interview directly. The trend suggests that this number of companies would increase more in the subsequent years.



Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Ei Samay Bengali News Paper and its ePaper

This Mahalayaa, 2012 Times of India group has launched its Bengali Daily newspaper, Ei Samay (or Ei Samai). TOI is already publishing a quality Bengali Magazine entitled Aamar Samay. Which was monthly initially but now bi-monthly. The epaper address of Ei Samay is http://epaper.eisamay.com/
Unfortunately the distribution network of both the newspaper and the magazine outside Kolkata and its suburban area is very very poor. Often one can see few articles of todays edition of Kolkata can be found in next day edition of TOI English daily circulated for the districts! Poor strategy!!