{"id":90936,"date":"2020-08-28T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=90936"},"modified":"2020-08-29T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:03:17","slug":"rahul-asks-for-support-wants-jee-neet-to-be-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/rahul-asks-for-support-wants-jee-neet-to-be-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"RAHUL ASKS FOR SUPPORT: WANTS JEE, NEET TO BE DEFERRED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congress and several opposition parties have cited the coronavirus pandemic and floods in various parts of the country to demand that the JEE and NEET examinations must be deferred, even as the Centre has made it clear the exams will be held as per schedule with due precautions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress Rahul Gandhi on Friday tweeted, \u201cUnite your voice with lakhs of suffering students. #SpeakUpForStudentSafety from 10am onwards. Let\u2019s make the Govt listen to the students,\u201d he urged. The former Congress president also tagged a video about the people\u2019s movement, talking about the issues students are going to face if the entrance exams for admission to engineering and medical colleges across the country are held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government is putting the students\u2019 health at risk by conducting the NEET, JEE exams amid pandemic. Students have been stressed out. During such time, the Congress stands with the students and we are speaking up for their safety,\u201d according to the voiceover in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JEE Main and NEET-UG will be conducted in September as scheduled, officials of the ministry of education has said amid a growing chorus for postponing the crucial tests in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. While the JEE Main is scheduled from September 1-6, NEET is planned on September 13. Around 8.58 lakh candidates have registered for JEE-Main and 15.97 lakh have registered for NEET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other opposition leaders, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik and DMK president MK Stalin have demanded that the exams be postponed. Banerjee and Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh have even called for approaching the Supreme Court in the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government, on its part, has said that more than 1.7 million candidates have already downloaded their admit cards for JEE and NEET, which shows students want the exams to be conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Also: AN UNEASY TRUCE: RAHUL LASHES OUT AT PARTY \u2018DISSENTERS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exams have been deferred twice in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The JEE-Mains was originally scheduled to be held from April 7 to April 11, but was postponed to July 18-23. The NEET-UG was originally scheduled for May 3 but was pushed to July 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court last week dismissed a plea seeking postponement of the two exams amid a spurt in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country, saying a \u201cprecious\u201d academic year of students \u201ccannot be wasted\u201d and that life has to go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress and several opposition parties have cited the coronavirus pandemic and floods in various parts of the country to demand that the JEE and NEET examinations must be deferred, even as the Centre has made it clear the exams will be held as per schedule with due precautions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,17,4],"tags":[2556,95045,8099,110,95006],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/05\/09130043\/Rahul-Gandhi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90936"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=90936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=90936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}