Supreme Court is scheduled to hear plea against the conduct of the JEE Main and NEET 2020 examination in the month of September amid the ri...
Supreme Court is scheduled to hear plea against the conduct of the JEE Main and NEET 2020 examination in the month of September amid the rising COVID-19 cases, according to Times of India. The plea has asked the Court to direct NTA to postpone the examination and schedule it when the COVID-19 situation is under control.
The plea has been filed by a group of 11 students on August 6 in which they said that the government’s decisions to conduct the exam was “utterly arbitrary, whimsical and violative of the students’ fundamental right to life”
The petition said that conducting the entrance examination at such perilous time is nothing else but putting lives of lakhs of young students at risk and danger of disease and death. The urged the Supreme Court to direct the testing agency to conduct the exam only when the situation is feasible.
The petition also highlighted the financial burden on the parents if the exams are conducted in the month of September. The petition said, “In such a situation, further burdening them with the cost of Transportation, Accommodation and Medical Treatment of their wards, for appearing in the examinations is utterly unjust, unfair and unwarranted,”
Another plea has been filed by parents body group supporting...
