Rahul Gandhi says students’ ‘Mann ki Baat’ over JEE, NEET must be heard by the Centre.
After the Supreme Court’s green light of staging the entrance exams, students have raised the issue of postponing JEE and NEET, owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.
On Sunday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the legislature must tune in to students looking for deferment of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and National Eligibility Entrance Exam (NEET) booked to be held in September. The Supreme Court had before dismissed petitions against holding the tests amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rahul Gandhi tells the government to hear the Mann ki Baat of students:
In a tweet, Gandhi said the central government must tune in to Mann ki Baat of students and make an adequate arrangement. The Supreme Court request has driven an online crusade for delaying the engineering and medical entrance tests– JEE Main and NEET – during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, a few government officials have joined the discussion under the inclining hashtags #SATYAGRAH_AgainstExamsInCovid and #StudentsKeMannKiBaat. However, the National Testing Agency (NTA), has just delivered the admit cards for JEE Main scheduled to start from 1st September. According to the official information, a tally of 8,58,273 students has enlisted to show up for JEE Main while almost 16 lakh had enrolled to show up for NEET.
Manish Sisodia urges the Centre to come up with more up to date ways for holding NEET & JEE:
As of late, the Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia additionally took to Twitter to voice his supposition on the issue. Requesting that the administration take a gander at elective methods of confirmations, Sisodia wrote on Twitter that the methodology of considering NEET and JEE as the main methods of affirmation is extremely limited and unreasonable. As the instructive organizations over the world are embracing more up to date ways for affirmation, for what reason can we not think about them in India? He said. The NTA, in an official proclamation, said that it has made “expound plans to sterilize the exam centers and will give new masks and hand gloves, post completion of it” to students.
