As per the recommendations made by National Agricultural Education Accreditation Board (NAEAB) in its XXVI Meeting held on 17th September, 2020 and subsequent approval accorded by Governing Body of ICAR in its 251st meeting held on 15.10.2020, the first batch pass out/appeared/appearing students of a graduate or post-graduate programme (UG/PG) in Agriculture & Allied Science subject from public funded/Govt. institutions (within or outside ICAR-AU system) or Private Agriculture and Allied Science colleges which have not been accredited by ICAR (irrespective of the fact whether they have applied to ICAR for accreditation or not) shall be exempted from the requirement of ICAR accreditation for appearing in and seeking admission through AIEEA(PG) and AICE- JRF/SRF(Ph.D.)-2022 examination in the current Academic Year/Session (2022-23). This exemption, however, shall not be applicable to the already passed out first batch students or batches subsequent to first batch from these institutions for appearing and seeking admission through the ICAR’s AIEEAs to be held in subsequent Academic Sessions until and unless they acquire ICAR-accreditation. More details in the notice published here.