Students want NEET, JEE; most have downloaded admit cards, says Education Minister
The HinduEducation Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Thursday said students wanted the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test and the Joint Entrance Examination to be held as over 17 lakh candidates had downloaded the admit cards in 24 hours. After the Supreme Court on August 18 dismissed a petition by a group of students to further postpone the exams due to to the pandemic, the National Testing Agency recently started issuing admit cards for the exams to be held in September. Mr. Pokhriyal said students had been writing to him, the Ministry and the NTA, asking for the exams to be held after they were postponed from April and May to July, and then September, according to a statement given to news agency ANI. He said the NTA Director General had informed him that 7.5 lakh of the 8.58 lakh JEE candidates and 10 lakh of the 15.97 lakh NEET candidates had downloaded their admit cards in 24 hours.