‘Postpone or find another way to hold JEE, NEET’

‘Postpone or find another way to hold JEE, NEET’

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New Delhi:  27.08.2020

With the dates for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) nearing, deputy chief minister and education minister Manish Sisodia has again asked the Centre to reconsider its decision of holding the exams in the prevailing pandemic situation. Sisodia urged the Central government to either postpone the exams or find an alternative way of conducting them.

“The Centre has closed its eyes to the Covid-19 ground reality. Why is it forcing 28 lakh students to sit for the exams? They are saying that they will make all the necessary arrangements. But despite the arrangements, so many people have tested positive,” Sisodia said while talking to reporters on Wednesday.

“The arrangements that we live in are much better. Our health minister still got infected. Chief ministers of several states have been affected. How can we be assured that the students will not get infected?” asked Sisodia.

“The government can easily find an alternative. In times like this when countries across the world have come out of the entrance system model, we should not be stuck,” added the deputy CM.

“We have to accept that the country is still in the grip of Corona. In Delhi and a few other states, situation may be better but in other states, the Covid-19 is on the increase," Sisodia wrote in a letter to Minister of Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. He even asked Nishak to think not as minister, but as a parent.

Earlier on August 21, Sisodia had asked the Centre to find an alternative to the examinations. JEE (Main) is scheduled to be held from September 1-6, while NEET is scheduled for September 13.

SISODIA SAYS

The Centre has closed its eyes to the Covid-19 ground reality. Why is it forcing 28 lakh students to sit for the exams?