The Supreme Courtroom on Monday dismissed pleas searching for postponement of JEE Main 2020 and NEET UG examinations — that are scheduled to be carried out in September amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The plea was heard by the SC Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra.
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NEET and JEE Main 2020 Examination Postponement Plea: Dwell updates
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SC dismisses the petition. Says the postponement of the NEET/JEE will put the 'profession of scholars in peril'. The bench says that it has taken into document the submission of Solicitor Common that exams will likely be held with enough precautions. Says, there is no such thing as a floor to intervene with coverage resolution.
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Advocate Alakh says that there's a likelihood of vaccine coming quickly for COVID-19. Even the Prime Minister stated about it in his August 15 speech. Not searching for an indefinite postponement of the examination, however a postponement for a while, he submits.
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Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta, showing for NTA, says that exams ought to be carried out, and enough precautions will likely be taken.
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'If exams will not be held, will not it's a loss to the nation? College students will lose the educational yr', Justice Arun Mishra says.
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"Life ought to transfer on even in COVID-19 occasions. Can we simply cease exams? We should always transfer on," stated Justice Arun Misra on plea searching for postponmenet of JEE/NEET exams.
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Beginning the listening to within the case, Justice Arun Mishra says there are two petitions. One searching for conduct of JEE and NEET exams and one other searching for postponement of those exams.
The plea, filed on August 6, by 11 college students belonging to 11 states, had sought the quashing of the general public notices launched by the
Nationwide Testing Company on July 3, by which it was determined to carry the JEE Primary and NEET UG exams in September. The petitioners additionally urged the court docket to direct the Centre to carry JEE and NEET examinations solely after normalcy is restored within the nation.
The plea had cited that, conducting the JEE Main and NEET examination throughout the nation at such perilous time is nothing else however placing lives of lakhs of younger college students (together with petitioners herein) at utmost danger and hazard of illness and demise. It additionally stated that the very best recourse at this stage might be to attend for some extra time, let the COVID-19 disaster subside after which solely conduct these exams, to save lots of the lives of the scholars and their mother and father.
The petitioners additionally urged the Courtroom to extend the variety of NEET and JEE examination centres throughout the nation and supply not less than one centre in a single district of every state.
Issuing a discover on July 3, the NTA had stated the JEE Main will likely be carried out from September 1 to six and NEET UG 2020 will likely be held on September 13, 2020.
The plea filed by advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava had additionally stated "Whereas deciding to conduct the aforesaid JEE (Main) April-2020 and NEET UG-2020 exams in September 2020, the respondents (NTA and others) have missed that many states have refused to permit conducting of any skilled or non-professional exams of their states at this stage and therefore the identical is prone to trigger unimaginable harassment to the petitioners and different equally located college students."
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