{"id":324394,"date":"2020-07-04T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324394"},"modified":"2020-07-04T03:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T03:47:20","slug":"jee-neet-exams-2020-postponed-union-hrd-minister-announces-fresh-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jee-neet-exams-2020-postponed-union-hrd-minister-announces-fresh-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"JEE, NEET exams 2020 postponed, Union HRD minister announces fresh dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323079 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal.jpg 809w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/ramesh-pokhriyal-757x420.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/>Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh\u00a0Pokhriyal\u00a0&#8216;Nishank&#8217; on Friday announced the fresh examination dates of NEET and JEE Mains &amp; Advance. The Minister informed that keeping in mind the safety of students and to ensure quality education, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to postpone JEE and NEET examinations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further informed that JEE Main examination will now be held between 1st-6th September 2020 and\u00a0JEE Advance exam will be held on 27th September 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He added that the NEET examination will be held on 13th September 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his address to the students Pokhriyal said, \u201cour priority during this epidemic is to ensure safety and academic welfare of students. We will ensure that while conducting the examination, we strictly follow the guidelines given by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Health Ministry so that students are kept away from the grip of this epidemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Minister said that social distancing will also be followed in the examination centers and all other precautionary arrangements will also be made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pokhriyal advised all the students\u00a0to remove all kinds of stress from their minds and pay attention to their studies. The National Testing Agency has prepared a testing App for all the candidates through which students can complete their preparations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh\u00a0Pokhriyal\u00a0&#8216;Nishank&#8217; on Friday announced the fresh examination dates of NEET and JEE Mains &amp; Advance. The Minister informed that keeping in mind the safety of students and to ensure quality education, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to postpone JEE and NEET examinations. He further informed that JEE Main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13154,13155,11852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324395,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324394\/revisions\/324395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}