ICAR AIEEA PG - 2021- Notification, Syllabus, Important dates, Application details .

The ICAR-Agricultural University (AU) System of India has 74 Agricultural Universites comprising 63 State Agricultural, Veterinary, Horticultural and Fisheries Universities (SAUs), 4 ICAR-DUs, viz. IARI, IVRI, NDRI and CIFE, 3 Central Agricultural Universities (CAU, Imphal, Dr. RPCAU, Pusa and RLB CAU, Jhansi), 4 Central Universities (CU) having Faculty of Agriculture (BHU, AMU, Viswa Bharati and Nagaland University). The National Agricultural Research, Education and Extension System (NAREES) of India is one of the largest in the world, admitting more than 28000 students at UG level and over 17,500 students at Master’s and Doctoral level annually, in different disciplines of Agricultural and Allied Sciences. 

During 2020-21, against the total of 3219 Seats, 2641 candidates were recommended by ICAR for admission to accredited Master Degree Programmes in 67 accredited AUs under the ICARAU system.

Eligibility criteria and qualifications:

In order to appear in ICAR-AIEEA (PG) 2021, an Indian national candidate must ensure that he/she fulfills the eligibility requirements for the examination as well as admission as detailed in the Information Bulletin.

• Candidate should note that for admission to Master’s degree programmes through entrance examination conducted by NTA, only the candidates having passed graduation with four/six (10+6 B.Sc. Ag.)/five years’ (B.V.Sc. & AH)/5½ years (B.V.Sc. & AH) degree programme will be eligible.
• The Candidate must have passed Bachelor degree examination securing Overall Grade Point Average (OGPA) of at least 6.60/10.00 in ten-point scale, 5.88/9.00 in nine-point scale, 5.226/8.00 in eight point scale, 4.573/7.00 in seven point scale, 3.92/6.00 in six pointscale, 3.25/5.00 in five-point scale, 2.60/4.00 in four-point scale for General, OBC, UPS and EWS categories whereas for SC/ST/Person with Disability (PwD) candidates, the said requirement is an OGPA of at least 5.60/10.00, 4.98/9.00 in nine-point scale, 4.426/8.00 in eight point scale, 3.873/7.00 in seven point scale, 3.32/6.00 in six point- scale, 2.75/5.00, 2.20/4.00, respectively. In other cases, where grade points are not awarded and only marks are awarded, the candidate must have secured at least 60% marks for General, OBC, UPS 16 and EWS categories whereas for SC/ST/PwD categories the requirement is 50% marks. (Please note that equivalence between OGPA and % marks will not be acceptable). There will be no rounding-off of the OGPA/percentage of marks of qualifying examination while deciding the basic eligibility of any candidate for admission e.g. if a candidate obtained 49.99% marks in his/her qualifying examination, then it will not be rounded-off to 50%. 

Important dates and websites:

Online submission of Application Form	25.07.2021 to 20.08.2021 (upto 05:00 PM)
Last date of successful transaction of fee through Credit/Debit Card/Net-Banking/UPI	20.08.2021 (upto 11:50 PM)
Correction in particulars of Application Form on website only (No corrections shall be allowed after 26.08.2021)	23.08.2021 to 26.08.2021
Downloading of Admit Cards from NTA website	To be announced later
Date of Examination	17th September 2021
Duration of Examination	120 minutes (2 hours)
Timing of Examination and Centre, Date and Shift of Examination	As indicated on Admit Card
Display of Attempted Question Paper and Provisional Answer Keys	To be announced later
Websites	http://www.ntaicar.nic.in/ https://www.nta.ac.in/
Schedule for Online Counselling	To be announced by the ICAR on www.icar.org.in, www.icarexam.net after the declaration of result

Application  Fee Payable by candidate:

General/Unreserved                                                     : Rs. 1120/- 

Other Backward Classes (OBC)- (NCL)*UPS/ EWS-: Rs. 1100/- 

SC/ST/PwBD/ Transgender                                         : Rs. 550/- 

Processing charges & GST are to be paid by the candidate, as applicable

Application:

• Candidates can apply for AIEEA (PG)-2021“Online” on the website : https://icar.nta.ac.in. 
• The Application Form other than online mode will not be accepted. 
• Candidates must ensure that e-mail address and Mobile Number provided in the Online Application Form are their own as all information/ communication will be sent by NTA through email on e-mail address or SMS on given Mobile Number only.

Syllabus for the Test:

 The Question Papers for the test shall be based on the syllabus prescribed by the ICAR, which is available at the website : https://icar.org.in/content/icar%E2%80%99s-aice-jrfsrf-pgs-2020-examination.

Four Steps to Complete the Application Process

• Step 1: Apply for Online Registration using unique Email ID and Mobile No. 
• Step 2: Fill in the Online Application Form and note down the system generated Application No. 
• Step 3: Upload scanned images of Candidate’s Photograph (file size: 10 kb - 200 kb) Candidate’s Signature (file size: 4kb – 30kb)and candidate’s thumb impression (between 3 kb to 30 kb) in JPG/JPEG format. 
• Step 4: Pay fee using SBI/Canara/HDFC/ICICI Bank/ Paytm Payment Gateway through Debit Card/ CreditCard/Net-Banking/UPI and keep proof of fee paid.In case the Confirmation Page is not generated after payment of fee then the transaction is cancelled, and amount will be refunded to the candidate’s account. However, the candidate has to make another transaction, in case the Confirmation Page is not generated. 

❖ Download, save and print copies of Confirmation Page after successful remittance of fee and keep copies safely for future reference. 

❖ All the 4 Steps can be done together or at separate times