Mokokchung, 9 December (MTNews): Nagaland University will also serve as the center for the State Eligibility Test (SET), a comprehensive examination initiated by the Government of India in 1988 to ensure a uniform standard of graduate and postgraduate teaching nationwide.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professors in Humanities and Social Science subjects, while the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) oversees the eligibility test for lectureship in Science subjects.
However, States and Union Territories were given the option to either conduct their own test or adopt the UGC-CSIR test. In response, several states, including those in the North East, chose to conduct their own State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) for Assistant Professors.
The North East State Level Eligibility Test (NESLET) was proposed on 26 June 2000, and later constituted as SLET Commission Assam (N.E. Region). The test’s name was subsequently modified to SET (State Eligibility Test). SET is conducted in all North East states, including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura.
The exam centers and the Center code are: Gauhati University (01); Dibrugarh University (02); Tezpur University (03); Assam University (04); Manipur University (05); Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Arunachal (06); Tripura University (07); Sikkim (Nar Bahadur Bhandari Degree College) (08); Mizoram University (09); North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya (10); Nagaland University (11).