NEET and JEE Main 2021: Supreme Court rejects plea seeking postponement of exams – education

NEET and JEE Main 2021: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea seeking postponement of NEET and JEE examinations 2021. A 3-decide bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra stated that “life has to go on” regardless of Covid and the courtroom can not put profession of college students in peril by interfering with the choice of the Nationwide Testing Company.

“Profession of college students can’t be put in peril. We discover no advantage within the petition. The petition is dismissed”, the bench which additionally comprised justices BR Gavai and Krishna Murari stated.

“You (attorneys) have demanded opening of bodily courts. However you need exams to be postponed. Postponment of exams is a loss for nation,” the bench stated.

Petitioner’s lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava stated that vaccine for Covid is “on its method” and he isn’t seeking an indefinite postponment of the exams. However the bench discovered no advantage within the case.

One other petition praying that NEET and JEE needs to be held as per schedule, was withdrawn by the petitioner after the courtroom rejected the plea seeking postponement.

Earlier this month, a plea was filed earlier than the Supreme Court by 11 college students belonging to 11 states seeking the postponement of JEE and NEET 2021 exams until the scenario because of the covid-19 pandemic normalizes. The plea sought quashing of Nationwide Testing Company’s (NTA) July three discover, to carry of JEE and NEET entrance examination in September.

As per the general public notices notified by the NTA, JEE (Main) 2021 examination is scheduled to be held from September 1-6, whereas the NEET-UG 2021 examination is scheduled for September 13.

Conducting JEE and NEET at this stage will put lives of lakhs of younger college students at risk, the petition filed by 11 JEE/NEET aspirants stated. “The perfect recourse at this stage will be to attend for some extra time, let Covid-19 Disaster subside and then solely conduct these Exams, with a purpose to save the lives of the scholars and their dad and mom,” the petition stated.

Earlier, JEE mains was scheduled to be carried out in April and Might respectively, which was later postponed because of the Covid-19 illness outbreak.