UGC NET: Tamil Nadu minister writes to Pradhan to reschedule examination contemplating Pongal | Aggressive Exams
In view of the harvest competition ‘Pongal’ celebrations in Tamil Nadu from January 14 to 16, 2025, the UGC-Nationwide Eligibility Check, scheduled to be held throughout these days as nicely needs to be rescheduled, Larger Training Minister Govi Chezhiaan appealed to the Centre on Monday.
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Writing to Union Training Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, Cheziaan mentioned that the Nationwide Testing Company beneath the Training Ministry has scheduled the UGC-NET December 2024 from January 3 to 16, 2025. Pongal competition falls on January 14, 2025 and Thiruvalluvar Day (Mattu Pongal) is widely known the next day and the Farmers Day (Uzhavar Thirunal– Kanum Pongal) on January 16.
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Pongal was not merely a competition, however an “emblem of our tradition and conventional heritage that spans over 3,000 years,” the Minister underscored and added that the Tamil Nadu authorities had already declared holidays from January 14 to 16, 2025 for the Pongal competition.
“If the NET examination is held through the Pongal holidays, it’ll hamper the preparations for the examination in view of the celebrations,” he mentioned. Additional, Cheziaan mentioned, “I subsequently request your form intervention to reschedule the UGC-NET examinations and different examinations to acceptable dates thereby guaranteeing that college students and students of Tamil Nadu and different states the place the harvest competition is widely known can seem for the examinations.”
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In view of the Pongal competition, the Chartered Accountants basis examination, January 2025 has been rescheduled, following a request by S Venkatesan, Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu, the Minister identified.
