WBJEE date clashes with Easter, Christian bodies demand change

The Christian community has requested the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Council to reschedule the date of the entrance examination for engineering as it coincides with the Easter festival.
In a letter to the council, Bangiya Christiya Pariseba, a united state forum of all denominational Christians, said, "it is astonishing to note that the date for the JEE 2014 has been set on April 20, which happens to be the Easter. We are being flooded with complaints over telephone from across the state."
It said that Easter, like Good Friday and Christmas, was of high religious significance to all Christians, adding that no person belonging to Christian community should be barred from practising religious rites and be compelled to open their institutions on that day, discharge his/her duties or sit for any kind of examination.

Herod Mullick, state working president of the forum, alleged that setting the JEE date on Easter seems to be "a glaring example of either gross ignorance or negligence towards the religious sentiment of a minority community.