As students wants to cancel the NEET medical entrance exam and the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission into the IITs, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on urged centre to rethink the decision “make alternate arrangement”. As India’s coronavirus cases passed 30 lakh, Mr Sisodia tweeted that “centre is playing with students’ lives”.
“In the 21st century, we can’t find an alternative to an entrance exam. This is not possible. The government’s intent should be to think about the welfare of students… There can be a thousand safer alternatives to NEET-JEE,” Mr Sisodia wrote in Hindi.
In another post, he said: “The thought process that NEET-JEE is the only alternative is an impractical thought. Worldwide, education systems are adopting new methods… why can’t we do it in India? It’s not wise to put students’ lives at stake for an entrance test.”
“Centre is playing with the lives of lakhs of students in the name of NEET-JEE entrance. I appeal to the centre that the entrance exams should be scrapped across the country and make an alternate arrangement. At the time of unprecedented crisis, only an unprecedented move will be able to find a solution,” he added.
The two exams are scheduled to be conducted in September.
Admit cards for the JEE (Main) exam have already been issued by the National Testing Agency (NTA) and around 6.5 lakh students (of the nearly 8.6 lakh who had registered) have downloaded them, according to sources.
