By Sachin Jyotishi
SagarWatch@ The students are prospective heirs of the nation. So they should be well equipped with sound moral, political and economical views. They are the pillars on which beautiful edifices will be built. But today, are we listening to our students? Why are they forced to take exams in this pandemic time?
It's right time to remind you all that phrase which was introduced with the emergence of the first lockdown in the country Prime Minister Narendra Modi quoted “JAAN HAI TO JAHAAN HAI ”…….MIND IT!
NEET-JEE-MAIN EXAM: Families requesting to postpone the exams
NEET and JEE
means a way to become doctors and engineers, which has been a common dream in most of the common Indian families. They are simply requesting to postpone the exams of NEET and JEE. I wonder why the official bodies have turned deaf to their demands which are genuine.
Honourable, the Supreme Court is not considering students delicate heart
here, since, it is an emotional concern so must not be discussed in
courts.
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NEET-JEE-MAIN EXAM: MP urges PM to conduct exams after DiwaliBJP MP Subramanian Swamy
urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to conduct entrance examinations
such as the NEET and the JEE after Diwali in the wake of the COVID-19
pandemic. The
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is scheduled to be held between
September 1 and 6 while the JEE (Advanced) on September 27.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be held on
September 13.
On Monday, the Supreme Court
dismissed a plea seeking postponement of JEE (Mains) April 2020 and
NEET-Undergraduate examinations in wake of the COVID-19
pandemic.Underlining that the Supreme Court judgment does not bind the
government when to hold the exam, Swamy indicated that holding the
exams, in his opinion, "may lead to suicides".
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The Research
Scholars of India (RSI) have also written to the Prime Minister,
Chairperson of NTA, MHRD and Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and
Family Welfare urging the government to postpone NEET. "In light
of the concern of the safety, security and good health of the students
and their families, and the general financial situation of the average
student of India, we hereby wish to request you to reconsider the decision to conduct the entrance examinations and postpone them till
such time that the pandemic is not under reasonable control.
We
do not wish to see young brilliant minds and their families in any kind
of risk or distress, and it would be a great service to them if you
could kindly accommodate this request," the letter from Nikhil Gupta,
National Representative and Coordinator of RSI said.
But will
postponing the exams make the students lose a year? Sudarshan said that there is nothing the students cannot make up with extra classes and intense lectures. "We are already late but we cannot give up our lives for an exam. Even if it happens in September, the results will be out 15
days later.
What
we can rather opt for is going for a two-phase counselling process rather than three stages and then expedite the classes to catch up.
Postponing the exam for other one or two months won't make much of a difference," said the aspirant.
The plea, rejected by the
Supreme Court, had urged the top court to conduct the exam only when
“normalcy is restored”.“Conducting the aforesaid examination across
India at such perilous time, is nothing else but putting lives of lakhs of young students (including petitioners herein) at utmost risk and the danger of disease and death.
The best recourse at this stage can be to wait for some more time, let
Covid-19 crisis subsides and then only conduct these exams, in order to save the lives of the students and their parents,” the plea filed through advocate Alakh Alok Srivastav read. The Supreme Court rejected the plea, saying that “precious years of students cannot be wasted and life has to go on”. "There is widespread desperation amongst the youth since this exam is make or break for them and they have to take it fully prepared.
The
formula for great nation is "Good student--> virtuous
society-->great nation". A good student forms a virtuous society means which is graft-less, politically balanced, economically standard and stands on moral grounds. The nation with integrity stands forever.
We used to say “PADHEGA INDIA TO BADHEGA INDIA” but now I want to ask “AISE KAISE PADHEGA AUR KAISE BADHEGA INDIA? “
