A seperate petition filed in SC for postponement of NEET
The Supreme Court will hear on September 4 the review petition filed by six Cabinet Ministers from opposition-ruled states against the August 17 order of the Supreme Court declining to postpone NEET-UG and JEE (Mains) exams amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The matter will be heard by he Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari.
NEET candidate Jasim, a resident of Saudi Arabia, said, "This is very impractical. I have not travelled alone before this. If my parents fly with me, we will have to bear extra cost which is an added burden at the moment. The time taken to complete the quarantine, appearing for exam and then completing quarantine here once back, will require a lot of leaves from work for them too. We are still working out what to do."NEET candidate Jasim, a resident of Saudi Arabia, said, "This is very impractical. I have not travelled alone before this. If my parents fly with me, we will have to bear extra cost which is an added burden at the moment. The time taken to complete the quarantine, appearing for exam and then completing quarantine here once back, will require a lot of leaves from work for them too. We are still working out what to do."
MCI AGAINST THE POSTPONE..
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court against the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate (UG) 2020. The council said that the NEET 2020 exam cannot be further postponed. As per the MCI, the further postponement of the NEET entrance exam will be a "drastic deviation" from the academic schedule which "may affect the subsequent academic years" of the students.
The affidavit came in response to a plea filed by a NEET aspirant's father, who lives in a Gulf country. The father has sought that the undergraduate entrance exam to be either made online or examination centre be provided for close to 4,000 NEET candidates, residing in Gulf countries due to coronavirus pandemic.
However, the MCI has clearly stated that holding an online exam was not possible as NEET follows "paper book format" and that would compromise the "uniformity" of the examination.
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