Today i.e. February 25, 2019, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has released the CSIR NET Application Form 2019. The online form has been released at the official website i.e. www.csirhrdg.res.in. Up to March 18, 2019 candidates will be able to register for CSIR NET 2019. Candidates can only use online mode for doing the registration. The candidates can apply for one post either for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) or for Lectureship (LS).
The General, OBC NCL and SC / ST / PWD category candidates have to pay the Rs 1000, Rs 500 and Rs 250 respectively as the application fee. The candidates can make the fee payment by using Credit Card, Debit Card and Net Banking. The application fee will be non-refundable so before applying for CSIR NET 2019 candidates should first read the eligibility criteria. The candidates applying for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) should be maximum 28 years old as on Januar 01, 2019 and the candidates applying for Lectureship (LS) does not have any upper age limit.
In the application form, the candidates have to fill the personal, contact, educational, qualification details and have to upload the scanned photograph, signature, final or last qualifying degree certificate, category certificate (if applicable), Pwd certificate (if applicable), Attestation Form (if applied under Result awaited category). The uploaded scanned photograph and signature should be in JPG format and the size of the file should be less than 15 KB. The scanned photograph and signature dimension should be of 35mm width x 45mm height and 35mm width x 15mm height respectively.
The CSIR UGC NET 2019 examination is scheduled to be conducted on June 16, 2019. The examination will be conducted in 27 centers located all over India.

The pen-paper based examination duration will be of 3 hours. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) will be asked in the examination and language of the paper will be Bilingual (English and Hindi). For each incorrect answer, negative marking will be there.

The candidates who will fill the online form on time for those CSIR NET Admit Card 2019 will be issued in the month of June 2019. The admit card will be made available at the official website. On the day of the examination, candidates should carry a hard copy of the e-admit card and one valid photo id proof (adhaar card, pan card, voter id card, driving license, passport etc).
The CSIR NET 2019 Final Result will be declared in the month of September/October 2019. The candidates who will score minimum qualifying marks those will be considered as qualified candidates. The result will be in the form of pdf. The qualified candidate’s fellowship will be effective from January 01, 2020 and it will be valid for 2 years for joining the fellowship under CSIR Scheme.