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Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik is the latest to write a letter seeking postponement of the above entrance exam.
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Several students had approached the Supreme Court with a request to postpone JEE and NEET, but the court refused to interfere in National Testing Gan
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• In a letter to Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday, Patnaik said
that due to prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation, it would be highly unsafe and perilous for
50,000 students of the state to visit the test centres physically to appear in these tests.

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• Famous climate activist Greta Thunberg has also tweeted in support of the students
demanding postponement of JEE and NEET. “It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked
to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while millions have also been
impacted by the extreme oods. I stand with their call to #PostponeJEE_NEETinCOVID,” she
tweeted on Tuesday.

• Mamata Banerjee had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday seeking
postponement of NEET and JEE examinations that are scheduled to be held in September.
Banerjee said she had expressed her views against the UGC guidelines that required
completing terminal examinations in universities/colleges across the country by the end of
September 2020. “My point was that this decision had a huge potential to put students’ lives at
risk,” the chief minister said.

• In his letter to Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, DMK president Stalin said that
no decision should be made in haste putting the lives of students at stake. “The government
should act keeping the well-being and future of students in mind. In the light of the severe
dif culties explained above, I sincerely request you to postpone the JEE, NEET until Covid-19
is brought under control,” Stalin said.

• The Supreme Court had on Monday declined to pass direction to the central government to
hold NEET examination in Gulf countries, but asked the government to allow students to come
via Vande Bharat Mission ights to give the exams. A bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao said
that the quarantine norms are mandatory for students who would come from the Middle East
countries to give exam but allowed petitioners to approach state authorities to seek relaxation.

• The top court had on August 17 dismissed a petition seeking postponement of these exams
saying precious year of students “cannot be wasted” and life has to go on.

• The Medical Council of India recently told the Supreme Court that postponement of the NEET
any further shall be a “drastic deviation” from the academic schedule which may affect the
subsequent academic years of the students.

• Over 4,200 students participated in a day-long hunger strike on Monday demanding the
cancellation and postponement of exams. Using the #SATYAGRAHagainstExamInCovid,
students took to Twitter to urge the government to heed to their demands.

• Around 16 lakh students have registered for NEET this year, while close to 9.3 lakh students
had registered for JEE-Mains (Paper I) that was conducted in January. An equal number of
students were expected to appear for the second phase of the exam, which are scheduled for
April-May each year.

• This year, however, owing to the Covid-19 outbreak, the National Testing Agency (NTA) kept
postponing the exam dates.

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