Referring to Prakash's Mail, I would like to express my views. I feel exemption is a good sign for people who really worth in delivering goods rather than just for the sake of doing NET/Ph.D for the eligibility purpose. Now people have the opportunity to show their talent. One can see in the private sector, without any formal eligibility conditions, people are doing wonderful work. While appointing, one has judge the candidate practically rather than certificates. candidates from autonomus instituions show better performance than NET certified candidates. With this certificate only people with influence background only can get the job and not with the performance background. So, let us have the opportunity to show the talent then put the staff on performance base appointment than government appointment. See the productivity and decide. No use of appointing net candidates with no productivity. It is better to use some management technique to appoint Lecturer/Librarian rather using the same old technique by certificate. Infosys/Wipro/TCS appoint people by their practical performance rather than certificates. Hope this is some good impression. Achar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com