JEE Main-NEET: Rahul Gandhi joins #StudentsKeMannKiBaat, says Centre must listen to Students

Even after the Supreme Court has denied any postponement of the engineering and medical exams - JEE Main and NEET. The debate is still on on holding the entrance exams during the COVID-19 pandemic. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the government must listen to students seeking postponement of Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and National Eligibility Entrance Exam (NEET) scheduled to be held in September.

The Supreme Court had earlier rejected petitions against holding the exams amid the coronavirus pandemic. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said that “life has to go on” despite Covid and the court cannot put career of students in peril by interfering with the decision of the National Testing Agency.

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Rahul Gandhi:

In a tweet, Gandhi said the central government must to listen to ‘students’ ke mann ki baat’ and arrive at an acceptable solution.

https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1297388296025251841

The Supreme Court order has led an online campaign for postponing the engineering and medical exams – JEE Main and NEET – during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, several politicians have joined the debate under the trending hashtags #SATYAGRAH_AgainstExamsInCovid and #StudentsKeMannKiBaat.

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Manish Sisodia:

Recently, the Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia also took to Twitter to voice his opinion on the issue. Asking the government to look at alternative modes of admissions, Sisodia wrote on Twitter that the approach of considering NEET and JEE as the only modes of admission is very narrow and impractical. As the educational institutes across the world are adopting newer ways for admission, why can we not consider them in India? he said.

https://twitter.com/msisodia/status/1297163288623505408

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Several others have also raised their concerns regarding these exams.

NTA:

The National Testing Agency (NTA), however, has already released the admit cards for JEE Main scheduled to begin from September 1. As per the official data, a total of 8,58,273 students have registered to appear for JEE Main. While nearly 16 lakh had registered to appear for NEET. Concerns have been raised over holding exams for such a large number of students amid the pandemic.

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