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‘Conduct JEE, NEET as per schedule’: Gujarat Parents Association files plea in Supreme Court – education
A plea was filed earlier than the Supreme Court by a dad and mom’ physique in search of instructions to the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) to carry the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and Nationwide Eligibility cum Entrance Check (NEET) for the 12 months 2021 as per schedule in September.
The plea by Gujarat Parents Association submitted that postponement of the exams will end result in lack of a tutorial 12 months for college kids who’re set to take the examination and may have an excellent bearing on their skilled profession and life.
“These exams are so vital that they decide college students’ profession and likewise all the life. As such, the Respondent Authorities should consider as a related issue, the truth that any additional deferment of the examination will additional add to the stress ranges of the scholars ensuing in additional traumatising the scholars with the uncertainty of their future and thereby severely impacting their tutorial efficiency in the final word examination to be held in future,” the petition stated.
The plea comes days after one other plea was filed earlier than the highest courtroom by eleven college students in search of indefinite postponement of JEE and NEET in view of Covid-19 pandemic. That they had claimed that conducting JEE and NEET throughout such a dangerous time will put lives of lakhs of younger college students in hazard and had, subsequently, sought instructions to be issued to NTA to carry JEE and NEET after normalcy was restored publish Covid-19 disaster.
JEE is scheduled to be held from September 1 to six and NEET is slated for September.
The JEE rating is the premise for admission to engineering institutes just like the Nationwide Institute of Know-how and Indian Institute of Know-how. Equally, admission to medical and dental undergraduate programs is thru NEET.
JEE and NEET, which had been initially scheduled to be held in April and Could respectively, had been postponed to July because of Covid-19 outbreak.
On July 3, the NTA, which is the central authorities physique tasked with conducting JEE and NEET, got here out with public notices to carry of JEE and NEET in September.