ICAR-AIEEA-PG Exam Program

• • The ICAR is the Apex Body for coordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture.
• • The ICAR-AU System of India has 74 Agricultural Universities 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 RLBCAU, Jhansi), 4 Central Universities (CU) having Faculty of Agriculture (BHU, AMU, Viswa Bharati and Nagaland University).
• • Master's degrees are awarded by Agricultural Universities in 81 Sub-Subjects under 20 Major Subject-Groups. Candidates should select one Major Subject Group for appearing in the Entrance Examination, based on compatibility with their own subject at graduation (UG) level.
• • The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has entrusted the responsibility of conducting All India Competitive Examinations for admission to Bachelor (UG), Masters (PG) & Doctoral (Ph.D.) Courses in Agricultural Universities (AUs) and award of scholarships & fellowships, to the NTA from 2019 onwards.

The award of ICAR-PG Scholarship:

• • ICAR shall award 600 ICAR-PG Scholarships (Rs. 12,640-per month + Rs.6,000/- (Annual contingent grant)) to meritorious students through AIEEA-PG Exam every year.

National Talent Scholarship (PG):

• • ICAR shall award National Talent Scholarship (NTS-PG) (Rs.5,000-per month) to meritorious students through AIEEA-PG Exam every year.

• • 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 (12+4/10+6 B.Sc. Ag./B.Tech.) / Five years (B.V.Sc. & AH) / 5½ years (B.V.Sc. & AH) degree programme will be eligible.
• • The Candidate must have passed bachelor's degree examination securing Overall Grade Point Average (OGPA) of the following:

• • In other cases, where grade points are not awarded and only marks areawarded, the candidate must have secured at least 60% marks for General, OBC, UPS and EWS categories whereas for SC/ST/ Third Gender /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%.
• • Candidates who appeared or appearing (Result Awaited) in qualifying degree is eligible to apply.
• • Candidates should meet minimum eligibility criteria of Participating Institutions/Universities
• • The applicant for a particular Subject must satisfy the eligibility criteria as specified in this Information Bulletin (or its amendments/corrections from time to time).

20 Major Subject Groups and 81 Sub-subjects for AIEEA (PG)