New Delhi, Aug 21
Government sources have issued a statement explaining why conducting exams is an important process and are unlikely to postpone JEE and NEET. They said that the exams would be conducted keeping all pandemic norms and maintaining social distancing norms.
With regards to a request for centre change due to non-availability of transport, the government said that NTA received very few complaints on changing of exam centres from aspirants
Till date, out of 8,58,273 candidates, 6,49,223 candidates have downloaded their admit cards. Out of these, 99.07% candidates have been given the first choice of their preference. Only 120 candidates have requested for a change in centre cities allotted to them.
NTA has also provided an option to candidates of JEE (Main) to change their centre cities five times, and 63931 candidates availed the same.
About NEET exam centres
Similarly, in NEET (UG), the option to candidates to change their centre cities was given five times, and about 95,000 candidates availed the same.
The admit cards for the NEET (UG) 2020 are scheduled to be released shortly and the exam will be held on September 13, 2020.
Out of the total of 15,97,433 candidates, 99.87 % candidates are being given the first choice of their preferences of city.
Steps taken for smooth exams
Elaborate arrangements have been made to sanitise the exam centres before and after the conduct of the examinations, give fresh masks and (on-demand) gloves based on the comprehensive guidelines (advisory regarding Covid-19 for all functionaries) for centre management in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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