
Naveen Patnaik known as PM Modi, requested him to postpone NEET, JEE exams amid Covid (File)
Bhubaneswar:
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik right this moment spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the telephone and requested him to postpone NEET and JEE exams, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the flood state of affairs within the state, a senior official mentioned.
Two days in the past, the Chief Minister had written a letter on this regard to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
Mr Patnaik, throughout his dialog with the Prime Minister, defined that Odisha is going through a pandemic in addition to flood, and college students would possibly face difficulties in showing for the examinations, the official on the Chief Minister’s workplace informed reporters.
The Chief Minister, in his letter to Mr Nishank on Tuesday, had urged the Centre to take steps for suspending the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) as “it will be unsafe for students to physically appear for the exams amid the pandemic”.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has scheduled medical and engineering entrance exams – NEET and JEE (Main) – in September. Around 50,000 college students in Odisha are set to look for NEET, and over 40,000 for JEE (Main), officers mentioned.
Over the previous week, heavy rain, triggered by back-to-back formation of low-pressure methods over the Bay of Bengal, battered the state, submerging low-lying areas, snapping street hyperlinks and claiming no less than two lives.
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