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JEE, NEET exams: IIT students, alumni help candidates hitch ride to centres

Develop user-friendly transport portal called www.edurid.in

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NEET and JEE aspirants can visit the portal and register themselves as students and request for a ride from their location to the exam centres

Vinay Umarji Ahmedabad

4 min read Last Updated : Aug 31 2020 | 7:38 PM IST

With several JEE and NEET aspirants facing difficulty in reaching their exam centres amid the Covid pandemic and heavy rains leading to flooding in certain parts of the country, students and alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have come up with a solution.

IIT students and alumni from the likes of IIT Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA), IIT Bombay and IIT Madras have come together to launch a user-friendly transport portal called www.eduride.in, which offers transportation facility for joint entrance examination (JEE) Main and Advance as well as National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2020 candidates.

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