NEET 2020, JEE Mains to be held from Sep 1; SC rejects postponement plea

The Supreme Court stated that a postponement of the NEET and JEE 2020 would put the 'career of students in peril'

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea to postpone the JEE Mains and NEET exams. The plea moved in the apex court had sought that public notices issued by the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct the JEE (Main) April 2020 exam between September 1 and 6 and the NEET on September 13 be quashed and set aside in view of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The petitioners' had urged the SC to give directions to the Centre to conduct JEE and NEET exams only after normalcy was restored in the country after the Covid-19 crisis.

Filed by advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava