Due to the ongoing protests in the northeast, the Joint CSIR-UGC NET examination, scheduled to be held on 15 December, has been postponed until further notification. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released a public notice regarding the same.

A public notice issued by National Testing Agency, an autonomous organisation under the Department of Higher Education, said, “The candidates scheduled to appear in Joint CSIR-UGC NET December 2019 examination in Assam (Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat, Silchar, Sivasagar, and Tezpur) and Meghalaya (Shillong) are hereby informed that their examination has been postponed.”