Gujarat Parents Association files plea in Supreme Court – JEE and NEET

A request was recorded under the steady gaze of the Supreme Court by a guardians’ body looking for bearings to the National Testing Agency (NTA) to hold the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for the year 2020 according to plan for September.

The request by Gujarat Parents Association presented that delay of the tests will bring about loss of a scholarly year for understudies who are set to take the test and will have an incredible bearing on their expert profession and life.

“These tests are imperative to the point that they decide understudies’ profession and furthermore the whole life. In that capacity, the Respondent Authorities must think about as an important factor, the way that any further delay of the assessment will additionally add to the feelings of anxiety of the understudies bringing about further damaging the understudies with the vulnerability of their future and in this manner seriously affecting their scholarly presentation in a definitive assessment to be held in future,” the request said.

The supplication comes days after another request was recorded under the watchful eye of the top court by eleven understudies looking for uncertain deferment of JEE and NEET taking into account Covid-19 pandemic. They had asserted that leading JEE and NEET during such an unsafe time will place lives of lakhs of youthful understudies at serious risk and had, hence, looked for headings to be given to NTA to hold JEE and NEET after regularity was reestablished post Covid-19 emergency.

JEE is planned to be held from September 1 to 6 and NEET is scheduled for September.

The JEE score is the reason for admission to designing foundations like the National Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Technology. Correspondingly, admission to clinical and dental college classes is through NEET.

JEE and NEET, which were at first planned to be held in April and May separately, were deferred to July due to Covid-19 flare-up.