As the chorus for the postponement of the upcoming NEET, JEE 2020 exams increases, West Bengal’s Chief Minister said today that the Center’s decision to take the exams during the pandemic will lead students to risk their lives.
Mamata was speaking at a virtual rally of the TMC student wing. She also added: “The Center is busy publishing sermons, instead you should hear ‘Mann Ki Baat’ from the students.”
Earlier in the day, ministers from six opposition-ruled states petitioned the Supreme Court to review its order allowing the Center to take NEET and JEE entrance exams this year.
While the NEET is scheduled for September 13, the JEE-Main Engineering Entrance Exam is scheduled for September 1-6.
Here are the top updates on the NEET, JEE 2020 debate:
1) The president of Congress, Sonia Gandhi, said that if the government makes any decision about the future of students, it must take it with their consent. In a video message that the Congress party tweeted, Sonia Gandhi said: “My dear students, I feel sorry for you because now you are facing a very difficult situation. The issue of your exams of when they should be taken and where is the most important “. for you and also for your family. “
2) West Bengal’s Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, had said earlier this week that opposition-ruled states such as Maharashtra, Punjab, West Bengal and Jharkhand should collectively go to the Supreme Court to postpone the main NEET exams and JEE to be held next month.
3) Maharashtra’s head of Congress and state minister Balasaheb Thorat on Friday criticized the Union government for its insistence on conducting JEE and NEET tests amid rising coronavirus cases. This insistence “when positive cases of COVID-19 have crossed 33 lakh it was anti-student and anti-people,” he said.
4) Congressional Leader Sachin Pilot also held a protest in Rajasthan against the Center’s decision to conduct these exams and demanded the Center to postpone the exams in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
5) Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren also echoed the same concerns from various political leaders. He said: “They (Center) said that thousands of students have downloaded admission cards. I don’t understand what kind of argument this is. If this is the case, then if someone has life insurance, does that mean they will die soon? “
6) The ministers of six states ruled by the opposition mobilized the Supreme Court against their order that allowed these exams to be carried out physically, saying that it did not ensure the “right to life” of the students and ignored the “logistical difficulties initials “that they would face when performing them during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
7) The request for review has been submitted by ministers from West Bengal (Moloy Ghatak), Jharkhand (Rameshwar Oraon), Rajasthan (Raghu Sharma), Chhattisgarh (Amarjeet Bhagat), Punjab (BS Sidhu) and Maharashtra (Uday Ravindra Sawant).
8) Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today that the NEET and JEE exams should be taken on schedule so that a year of students is not wasted. “NEET-JEE is not a policy issue, but it is tied to the future of students,” he added. The Uttar Pradesh government is in favor of keeping the NEET and JEE in, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday.
9) In addition, more than 150 academics from various universities in India and abroad have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in writing in support of taking the exam, saying that delaying further JEE-Mains and NEET will mean compromising the future of the students.
10) Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said on Thursday that with the number of admission cards that have been downloaded in recent days, students want exams to be taken at any cost.
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