NEET JEE Major Reexamination Required by a PIL Filed at SC | Photo Credit: Representative Image
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court requesting that Suo Moto take notice of the reports of students who were unable to appear in the entrance exams such as JEE Main and NEET 2020 conducted by NTA in September. The PIL also asks the superior court to order the National Testing Agency, NTA, to allow such students to appear in the new exams conducted by it.
It was seen that this year many students who had been preparing for the two main entrance exams of India, the Joint Entrance Exam, JEE Main, conducted from 1-6 September 2020, and the National Eligibility Entrance Exam, NEET 2020 that took place on September 13, 2020.
This time due to the outbreak of the pandemic, although the NTA had made many provisions for the safe conduct of the exams, many students chose not to appear and many were unable to appear due to unforeseen events. Related article | NEET special trains ran with few passengers, applicants made their own arrangements to get to the test center
NEET, JEE 2020 Major Reexamination: SC Guilty Pleas
The allegation urges the SC to instruct NTA to conduct further examinations. It also seeks that the various state governments provide transportation facilities for students who would appear in these exams conducted by NTA on this occasion.
According to the allegation, he has been asked to: “Issue a writing, order or instruction, in the exercise of its inherent and plenary powers under article 142, issuing / establishing guidelines or instructions for students who lose exams such as NEET, IIT, JEE, etc. due to any of the other sufficient causes, to allow and facilitate that it appear in said examinations on later dates that can be notified by the respondents, among other things, providing accommodation, food and water, transportation, etc. “
NEET, JEE Main 2020 Retest: Nationwide Exam Statistics
However, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank expressed satisfaction with the NEET test conducted on Sunday across the country despite the COVID-19 pandemic and said it was more successful than the JEE Main and 90 percent. one hundred of the students participated in it. “The NEET exam was more successful than the JEE Main one. It was a great challenge for us,” the minister told reporters.
According to the Ministry of Education, of the 8.58 lakh applicants, 6.35 lakh showed up for the engineering test from September 1-6. The exam was carried out after being postponed twice in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
