{"id":325703,"date":"2020-08-28T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325703"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T10:15:11","slug":"six-states-file-review-petition-against-sc-order-to-hold-neet-jee-2020-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/six-states-file-review-petition-against-sc-order-to-hold-neet-jee-2020-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Six states file review petition against SC order to hold NEET JEE 2020 exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-refuses-urgent-hearing-on-ayodhya-dispute-case\/supreme-court-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305446\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a>Six states on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its order allowing Centre to conduct National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ministers from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Punjab, and Maharashtra urged the supreme court to reconsider its order and sought delay of the entrance exams,\u00a0which are going to be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">To show protest against holding these exams, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi along with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and opposition ruled state leaders had held a meeting on August 26. In the meeting, it was decided to approach the Supreme Court for postponing the exams due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Congress is holding nationwide protests against the decision of conducting the NEET-JEE Exams. Sonia Gandhi in a video message on Friday said, &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Students are our future, we depend on them to build a better India, therefore, if any decision has to be taken regarding their future it is important that it is taken with their concurrence.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his tweet said, &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">NEET-JEE aspirants\u2019 safety should not compromised due to the failures of the Govt. Govt must listen to all stakeholders and arrive at a consensus.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">NTA earlier in a statement had said, &#8220;made all elaborate arrangements to sanitize the centers before and after the conduct of the examinations and all due precautions have been taken in view of Covid-19 situation in the country.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six states on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its order allowing Centre to conduct National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Ministers from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Punjab, and Maharashtra urged the supreme court to reconsider its order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,13154,3836,9980,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325703"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325705,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325703\/revisions\/325705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}