The National Testing Agency (NTA)’s determination to go forward with the NEET and JE exams has induced a large upheaval with college students throughout the nation planning a protest from their houses tomorrow, demanding postponement or cancellation of exams given the alarming rise in corona virus instances. From 8 am, college students throughout India eligible for the exams are set to “raise Black Flags from homes, tie black bands on arm or forehead, wear black mask, turn their profile pictures BLACK!” to protest towards the choice. Several opposition leaders as well as state authorities have additionally requested the Center to do a rethink on the exams because the Covid-19 instances proceed to surge. Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have convened a gathering of opposition chief ministers on Wednesday afternoon to focus on the problem of holding NEET and JEE Main examination subsequent month amid the corona virus pandemic.

Banerjee on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Center ought to attraction towards the Supreme Court order for holding the JEE and NEET examinations throughout the COVID-19 outbreak to make sure the aspirants are free from “mental agony”. She wrote to Modi after the state authorities acquired a letter from the National Testing Agency to conduct the JEE/NEET examinations ranging from September 1. “I am aware that the Hon’ble Supreme Court NEET and JEE Main examination has given a verdict on holding JEE/NEET examinations and the central government has been issuing instructions to go ahead with it accordingly. However, I would like to request for your kind intervention and to consider the central government making an appeal to the Hon’ble apex court to review its decision in the interest of the student community, so that they are free from mental agony and mental disaster,” Banerjee wrote within the letter. “Such intervention is very much essential in the larger interest of the students to facilitate creating a situation whereby the students will neither be subjected to grave health risk nor they will be facing a career risk,” she wrote. “We are really worried and concerned.”