NEET, JEE 2020 Exams: No Relief For Students! SC Rejects Review Pleas By 6 States Seeking Postponement

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the review petition filed by ministers of six states, making it clear that examinations will be conducted on their respective dates.

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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the review petition filed by ministers of six states, seeking review of the court's August 17 order to conduct NEET-UG and JEE (Mains) examinations. This implies that the NEET examinations will be conducted on their scheduled dates and JEE Main exams will continue as they are already underway. In ongoing JEE Main exams, more than 82 per cent candidates appeared on the third day of the test on Thursday, officials said, while it was 81.08 per cent on Wednesday. The National Testing Agency (NTA) is holding JEE Main Exams from September 1 to September 6, while NEET will be held on September 13. The rejection of plea comes a day after the Ministry of Health released a detailed list of Standard Operating Procedure to be followed while conducting any exam in the current scenario. Six state government ministers of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh had approached the apex court on 28 August seeking review of its 17 August order. These ministers belong to non-BJP ruled states and have filed a review petition in the apex court for a postponement of JEE-NEET exams. Earlier in the day BJP MP Subramaniam Swamy compared students appearing for JEE/NEET exams in the middle of the pandemic and monsoon to the tragic Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919) where thousands of innocent people were gunned down by the British officer General Dyer. "JEE/ NEET exams in the middle of a galloping COVID-19 infections, paralysing lockdown effects, a collapsing economy, a monsoon in bloom, Chinese Dragon gobbling our territory, & chors and murderers in Bollywood, is like Jallianwala Bagh where innocent were gunned down," Swamy had tweeted. It is to be noted that amid apprehensions of Covid-19, students and parents have been demanding postponement of examinations, fearing chances of getting exposed to the contagion.