In an announcement made on Tuesday by the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the medical entrance exam in NEET-UG shall be conducted in nearly 13 languages, including Punjabi and Malayalam, for the first time. To felicitate the Indian students in the middle east, a new examination center has been established in Kuwait for the NEET in a milestone, Pradhan added, as per a report released by the Republic world.
To ease the opportunities for each of the respective states, the examinations shall be conducted mainly in several diverse languages. The mentioned 13 languages include Assamese, Punjabi, Odiya, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu as well as English. The Union Education Ministry announced that the cities where the medical examination shall be held will also be increased from 155 to 198, while plans were also there for increasing the number of examination halls from 3,862 in the previous year.
Which strict precautions adherence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NEET exam, which was initially scheduled for 1st August was deferred to 13th September, as announced by the Union Education Minister through his Twitter handle on Monday and the application process for the same was commenced on 13th July 5 p.m.
Registrations for the NEET(UG) 2021 has started on https://t.co/OdWUKVfCC2 from 5:00 pm today. For the first time in the history of NEET(UG) exam and in order to facilitate the Indian student community in the middle east, an examination centre has been opened in Kuwait.
— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) July 13, 2021
It was decided to ramp up the number of cities for the conduction of the examination by 43, to 198 from the previous 155 by the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as announced by him earlier yesterday mentioning that it was obligated to maintain physical distancing at centers.
