Supreme Court (SC) advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava has written to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) seeking the postponement JEE Main 2020, JEE Advanced 2020 and NEET 2020 exam dates. The exams are scheduled to be held in September. On August 17, SC had dismissed pleas to postpone JEE Main 2020 and NEET 2020 exams. JEE Main 2020 is to be held online from September 1 to 6 while NEET 2020 for admission to undergraduate medical courses is slated to be held offline on September 13 across 161 exam centres in India. Srivastava said in his letter that the JEE and NEET examinations that will be held in September 2020 should be postponed. He added that if it is not possible to postpone it, then students who are unable to give these entrance exams in September must be given a chance to appear at a later stage. SC had dismissed the pleas saying that postponement of JEE and NEET will put students' careers in peril. JEE Main is the entrance exam for admission into engineering institutes whi...
As per reports, 11 JEE and NEET students from 11 states have filed a petition in the Supreme Court for seeking relief for postponement of the JEE Advanced 2020 and NEET 2020 exams. The students sought for more number of exam centres as a precautionary measure and urged for transport facilities to and from the examination centres. "Conducting the aforesaid examination across India at such perilous time, is nothing else but putting lives of lakhs of young students (including petitioners herein) at utmost risk and danger of disease and death. The best recourse at this stage can be to wait for some more time, let COVID-19 crisis subside and then only conduct these exams, in order to save lives of the students and their parents," the plea said. “COVID cases are rising alarmingly and students are suffering from severe stress and anxiety,” said advocate Alakh Alok Shrivastava, who is also the lawyer for students who moved Supreme court against the UGC guidelines on universit...