NEET and JEE Main 2020: Supreme Court Lawyer writes to PMO, requests postponement of exams

A Supreme Court Advocate, Alakh Alok Srivastava has written to the Prime Minister’s Office, PMO seeking postponement of JEE Main and NEET exams. The exams are scheduled to be conducted in September across the country as per schedule after Supreme Court dismissed the plea to postpone JEE Main and NEET exams on August 17. 

Srivastava in his letter has mentioned various points as to why the exams should not be conducted. In point number 15 he urges the Prime Minister to postpone the NEET, JEE exams.

He writes, “I am most respectfully requesting your good self to kindly postpone the NEET, JEE exams, scheduled to be conducted in the month of September 2020. The same may be conducted after a few months from now when the normalcy will be restored post COVID19 crisis.”

He further plans to submit the letter to NHRC today, August 19 and is also thinking of approaching SC again next week. However, he has advised students to keep studying and prepare for the exams.

As per the previous schedule, JEE and NEET will be conducted next month. JEE Main exam will be conducted online from September 1 to September 6, 2020, across the country. NEET exam will be conducted offline on September 13 across 161 exam centres in India. Every year around 1.5 million students register for NEET exams out of which only 50,000 get the seats.

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