Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today appealed to the Centre to assess the risk and postpone the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2020 until the situation becomes conducive to hold the exams.
Banerjee stressed that it is the duty of the government to ensure a safe environment for all our students.
“Now with the directive of @EduMinOfIndia to conduct NEET, JEE 2020 in Sep, I would again appeal to the Centre to assess the risk and postpone these examinations until the situation is conducive again. It is our duty to ensure a safe environment for all our students,” the TMC supremo tweeted.
In our last video conference with the Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi Ji, I had been vocal against the UGC guidelines mandating completion of terminal examinations in Universities/Colleges by the end of September 2020, which had a huge potential to put student lives at risk. (1/2)
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) August 24, 2020