Will NEET 2020 be postponed again? - Live News and Updates

Will NEET 2020 be postponed again? - National Testing Agency (NTA), on August 2020 has confirmed that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be conducted on September 13, 2020, from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM for admission to around 1,63,150 MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and BVSc & AH seats. As per the NEET 2020 latest update on the postponement, the Education Ministry is going to issue a video on NEET conduction. Earlier there are mixed reactions on conducting NTA NEET 2020. As many as 43 members of academic fraternity have signed a letter in support to conducted NEET exam 2020, which can be checked below. Also, several politicians and state governments are discussing and requesting the central government to postpone NEET entrance exam. Tamil Nadu government has requested to either scrap NEET 2020 exam or exemption of medical students from attending the entrance test. Congress president, Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with seven Chief Ministers on NEET postponement. While Punjab CM will file a petition for NEET postpone 2020. Mamta Banerjee has asked all the opposition CMs to jointly approach the Supreme Court to postpone NEET 2020. Along with these, earlier politicos like Manish Sisodia, Akhilesh Yadav, Chirag Paswan and Swamy Subramanium have written or tweeted to the central government to postpone NEET entrance exam. The previous year toppers have also tweeted to postpone NEET 2020. The question 'Will NEET 2020 be postponed after September 13?' is trending. With NTA press release it has been clarified that NEET 2020 will be held on scheduled date. Candidates can read the activities on will NEET UG be postponed or not below.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: NEET 2020 admit card released; Download here

The new exam date, which is September 13 was announced by the Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on July 3. A total of 16.84 lakh aspirants will take the exam from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. After the cancellation of the remaining exams of CBSE on June 25, 2020, the chances of NEET postponement was also increased. Earlier, Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister during a live interview has confirmed that the entrance exam will be going to be conducted as per its schedule but keeping the safety of aspirants in mind, now he announced NEET new exam date.

Earlier the NEET exam was postponed on March 27, 2020, and now on July 3, due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown for more than three months. Seeing the status of COVID-19 cases across the nation, the government might extend the lockdown, which eventually increased the chances of NEET postponement 2020 again. Therefore, the answer to the only question asked across by medical applicants is Will NEET 2020 be postponed again? has been given by HRD Minister.

“Will the NTA NEET 2020 be postponed again after September 13?” or “If the lockdown is extended, will NEET 2020 be further extended?”, "Is NEET 2020 will be cancelled" or “What are the chances of postponing the NEET 2020 due to Coronavirus pandemic?” and several more questions have been asked on Facebook, Quora and Careers360 QnA platform regarding NEET postponement again and trending with #postponeneet, #protestagainstexamsincovid, which will be somehow halted now because new NEET exam date has been announced. With the effect of coronavirus, increases the chances of NEET 2020 postpones. However, candidates are advised to utilize the time in NEET preparations rather than worrying over the situation, as nothing can be changed. It must be noted that the previous year NEET exam for Odisha was postponed due to the major effect of Cyclone Fani and was re-conducted on May 20, 2019. Read the article to know will NEET 2020 be postponed again and answers to such questions.

Will NEET postponed again? - Latest news and updates

• August 27, 2020: On the controversy of NEET conduction Education Ministery is going to issue a video statement at 3:00 PM. Aspirants are advised to be tunned as any latest update n NEET is expected.

NEET, JEE 2020: Education Ministry To Issue Statement At 3 PM, Stay Tuned#NEETJEE https://t.co/iCtHi2dbJJ

— OTV (@otvnews) August 27, 2020

• August 26, 2020: As many as 43 members of faculty academic fraternity have written a letter to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in support of conducting NEET 2020 exam. The letter mentions, "the dreams and future of our youth and students cannot be compromised at any cost. However, some are trying to play with the future of our students to propel their own political agenda and oppose the government. We hope and strongly believe that under your able leadership, the central government will successfully conducted the JEE and NEET exams taking full precautions to ensure that the future of students is taken care of and the academic calendar for 2020-21 is rolled out." Read the detailed letter below.

• August 26, 2020: Tamil Nadu government has urged the centre to either postpone NTA NEET exam or exemption of medical students to attend the NEET UG 2020. In a press conference, the education minister, K A Sengottaiyan said on Wednesday.
  
• August 26, 2020: Greta Thunberg has also tweeted for the postponement of NEET 2020 entrance exam. In her tweet it has been mentioned, " It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while millions have also been impacted by the extreme floods. I stand with their call to #PostponeJEE_NEETinCOVID." Check the tweet below.

It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while millions have also been impacted by the extreme floods. I stand with their call to #PostponeJEE_NEETinCOVID

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 25, 2020

• August 26, 2020: Mamta Banerjee, West Bengal CM has asked all states Chief Ministers to jointly move to the SC to postpone NEET entrance examination as the students are not prepared due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In her tweet, she also appealed to the centre to assess the risk and postpone these examinations until the situation is conducive again. It is our duty to ensure a safe environment for all our students. Check the tweet below.

Now with the directive of @EduMinOfIndia to conduct NEET, JEE 2020 in Sep, I would again appeal to the Centre to assess the risk and postpone these examinations until the situation is conducive again. It is our duty to ensure a safe environment for all our students. (2/2)

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) August 24, 2020

• August 26, 2020: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, said that the state government will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict on NEET. Along with that various government of states like Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Odisha had already made similar statements. Aspirants can check the official tweets of CM Punjab on NEET 2020 from below.

Chief Minister @capt_amarinder Singh directs AG to work with counterparts in other opposition ruled states to file review petition in SC on NEET/JEE exams. At VC with Sonia Gandhi , suggests going to PM together to seek GST compensation release, says `Not asking for moon’
..(1/2)

— CMO Punjab (@CMOPb) August 26, 2020

• August 26, 2020: In-charge of BJP's national Information & Technology, Amit Malviya also tweeted regarding NEET conduction and ask the opposition to stop politics over the exam conduction.

This is how Goa conducted class 10th exams, with all precautions, during the pandemic. Karnataka and Kerala also held exams for 10/12th grade. Karnataka even held the CET.

No reason why JEE/NEET can’t be held similarly. Opposition should stop using students for their politics... pic.twitter.com/zqWybQtMMU

— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) August 26, 2020

• August 26, 2020: After the release of NEET admit card on ntaneet.nic.in, twitter is again flooded with the tweets to postpone NEET to further dates. Many prominent personalities are writing a letter to PM to postpone NEET. Aspirants can check the tweets regarding the demand to postpone NEET from below.

Mamta Banarjee wrote letter to Prime Minister to postpone NEET 2020

Chief Minister @MamataOfficial has written to the Prime Minister, asking the Centre to file a review of the Supreme Court’s decision with regard to conduct of NEET/JEE. #NEET_JEE #NEETJEEAspirants #SWAMYJI_HELPJEENEET #neetpostpone2020 #neetjee2020 #NEETJEE #StudentsLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/AYkZ21HNGA

— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) August 25, 2020

AAP MP wrote letter to Education Minister for NEET Postponement

Now AAP MP @SanjayAzadSln Writes to Union Minster for Education @DrRPNishank to postpone #JEE_NEET @AamAadmiParty #NEETJEE #StudentLivesMatter #neetjeepostpone pic.twitter.com/KV8wELT1DS

— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) August 22, 2020

• August 22, 2020: The Rajya Sabha member, Swamy Subramanian has written letters to PM Modi requesting to postpone NEET 2020 entrance exam. The letter mentions that "Holding the exam, in my opinion, you may lead to a large number of suicides around the country of youth."
  

Dr Subramanian @Swamy39 has raised the issue of postponement of NEET/ JEE & other similar Entrance Exams with the UNION HRD Minister @DrRPNishank & has now written to @PMOIndia @narendramodi urging him to postpone the examinations to after Deepawali due to Covid19 conditions now pic.twitter.com/DhWbys00RI

— Jagdish Shetty (@jagdishshetty) August 21, 2020

• August 22, 2020: Many renowned ministers like Manish Sisodia, Akhilesh Yadav among others have used their Twitter accounts to address the central government questioning Will NEET 2020 be postponed for September? AAP leader, Manish Sisodia tweeted that the government is playing with the life of lakh of students, in the name of NEET entrance exam. While the president of Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav twitter account mentions, " The obstinate BJP government should not arrange the corona safe transportation, examination center and lodging, keeping in mind the demand of parents and candidates, do not force the youth for examination." Aspirants can check the tweets below.

JEE-NEET की परीक्षा के नाम पर लाखों छात्रों की ज़िंदगी से खेल रही है केंद्र सरकार. मेरी केंद्र से विनती है कि पूरे देश में ये दोनो परीक्षाएँ तुरंत रद्द करें और इस साल एडमिशन की वैकल्पिक व्यवस्था करे.
अभूतपूर्व संकट के इस समय में अभूतपूर्व कदम से ही समाधान निकलेगा. @DrRPNishank

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 22, 2020

हठधर्मी भाजपा सरकार कोरोना सुरक्षित परिवहन, परीक्षा केंद्र व ठहरने की व्यवस्था करे बिना अभिभावकों व परीक्षार्थियों की माँग को ध्यान में रखते हुए युवाओं को परीक्षा के लिए बाध्य न करे. #INDIAunitedtoPostponeNEET_JEE#ProtestAgainstExamsInCOVID#PostponeNEET_JEESept#AKTU_Lucknow

— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) August 22, 2020

• August 21, 2020: NTA has released a press release confirming that NEET 2020 will not be postponed and will be conducted as per the schedule. In the official press release, NTA has quoted the order from Supreme Court and highlighted that the career of students cannot be put on peril for long and full academic year cannot be wasted. Authorities assured aspirants that they are making all possible efforts to conduct NEET 2020 exam smoothly. In regard to that 99.87% aspirants have been provided their first choice of exam city centres.
  
  
• August 21, 2020: Secretary of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development Amit Khare has confirmed and said that NEET will not be going to be postponed again. As Supreme Court has also given clear orders regarding it. The official tweet regarding the NEET 2020 conduction can be checked from below.

HRD Minister RP Nishank's office also confirms that JEE and NEET will NOT BE POSTPONED. #NEETJEE #JEE2020 #Swamyjihelp_NEETJEEaspirants #NEETJEEpostponekaro #postponeNEET_JEE #postponejeeneet @anubha1812

— Bar & Bench (@barandbench) August 21, 2020

• August 21, 2020: Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has tweeted that he had spoken to the Minister of Education suggesting to conduct NEET and other exams after Deepavali. Aspirants can check the official tweets of Subramanian Swamy on NEET 2020 from below.

I have just spoken to the Minister of Education suggesting that NEET and other exams be conducted after Deepavali. The SC order the other day is not a bar since the Hon’ble Court has left the date to the government. I am sending an urgent letter to the PM just now.

— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) August 21, 2020

• August 20, 2020: NTA has released the official notification confirming that NEET 2020 is, after all, will be held on September 13, 2020 amidst the COVID-19. Candidates can check the official notification Here
• August 7, 2020: SC has dismissed the PIL filled regarding the NEET 2020 postponement. J. Mishra said. "Education should be opened up. COVID may continue for a year more. Are you going to wait for another year. Do you know what is the loss to the country? The peril to the students,"

Order: Career of students cannot be put under jeopardy for long.

Court dismisses the plea.@DG_NTA #SCpostponeJEE_NEET @advocate_alakh @anubha1812 pic.twitter.com/slHwcZl8wo

— Bar & Bench (@barandbench) August 17, 2020

• August 7, 2020: As NEET exam is getting closer, students, parents, guardians and conducting authorities have divided thoughts of conducting the medical entrance examination. Frustrated with the continuous NEET postponed, some of the candidates want entrance test to be conducted as per the schedule. We have been tracking all these mixed reactions by students/parents on should NEET 2020 be postponed? and received many suggestions/thoughts on mail.
• August 6, 2020: Eleven students from 11 states have filed a PIL to postpone NEET 2020 till December due to Coronavirus crises. As per the tweet by 11 petitioners in Supreme Court for JEE_NEET, "Hello everyone, we are almost ready to file a petition in the Supreme Court with Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava and Advocate Anubha Shrivastava Sahai. Do follow to get the latest updates regarding petition. #SaveJEE_NEETstudentsPM." Check the official tweets below.

Hello everyone, We are almost ready to file petition in supreme court with @advocate_alakh and @anubha1812
Do follow to get official updates regarding petition.#SaveJEE_NEETstudentsPM

— 11 Petitioners In Supreme Court for JEE_NEET (@11Petitioners) August 6, 2020

-On behalf of 11 students from 11 States, today I have filed a Petition in Supreme Court

-Seeking Postponement of September #NEET #JEE due to alarming COVID rise

Also

-To Conduct it after COVID subsides

-Increase Exam Centres

-Give fresh opportunity to aspirants to fill Form

— Alakh Alok Srivastava (@advocate_alakh) August 6, 2020

However, clarifying their point of view these 11 petitioners have tweeted that, "Our PIL is for postponement of September exam and conduct normalcy is restored. Not cancellation of JEE Main and NEET. It can't be cancelled, it will happen, so keep studying. We are just praying to conduct it when normalcy is restored. Don't confuse." Read the tweet below.

Our PIL is for POSTPONEMENT of September exam and conduct when normalcy is restored

Not cancellation of JEE OR NEET
IT CAN'T BE cancelled it will happen so keep studying

We are just praying to conduct it once normalcy is restored.

Don't confuse

— 11 Petitioners In Supreme Court for JEE_NEET (@11Petitioners) August 6, 2020

• August 6, 2020: The parents association has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) demanding postponement of NEET and JEE Main entrance examinations to December. Alakh Alok Srivastava, the advocate representing the association said on social media: “Despite our written request, Education Ministry and NTA have not yet postponed NEET and JEE Exams. Meanwhile, COVID cases are rising alarmingly and students are suffering from severe stress and anxiety. So, we are filing a petition in Supreme Court today for postponement of NEET and JEE.”

-Despite our Written Request, Education Ministry & NTA have not yet postponed NEET & JEE Exams

-Meanwhile, COVID cases are rising alarmingly & students are suffering from severe stress & anxiety

-So, we are filing a Petition in Supreme Court TODAY for postponement of NEET & JEE

— Alakh Alok Srivastava (@advocate_alakh) August 6, 2020

• August 5, 2020: Social media is flooded with the mixed reaction on NEET 2020 postponement or conduction. With NEET being postponed twice and not cancelled by NTA and MHRD, students have been left worried on how they will attempt the examination at the centres with health risk.
  
• July 3, 2020 (7:27): HRD Minister has announced the new NEET exam date i,e. September 13.
  
• July 3, 2020: It is expected that HRD Minister will announce a new update on NEET conduction, any time soon after the submission of the NTA report after reviewing the current scenario.
• July 2, 2020: Due to the number of requests received from students and parents, HRD Minister asked NTA to submit their recommendation the MHRD latest by July 3, 2020. Check the official tweet of HRD Minister regarding NEET 2020 below.
  

  Looking at the prevailing circumstances & requests received from students & parents appearing for #JEE & #NEET examinations, a committee consisting of @DG_NTA & other experts has been advised to review the situation & submit its recommendations to @HRDMinistry latest by tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/xByKLUqAIc

  — Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) July 2, 2020

• June 30, 2020: NEET postponed petition has been started by Akshay Sharma to Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and NTA. The online petition of NEET postponement 2020 titles - "Postpone JEE and NEET to the end of 2020". Check the details of the NEET petition for postponement below.

• June 27, 2020: In an interview with Zee News, Pokhriyal has explained that the authorities will “try to conduct” the NEET 2020 as per the earlier schedule. HRD Minister has also confirmed that as per now there are no changes in NEET 2020 exam date.
  
• June 25, 2020: The Center announced that the remaining examination of CBSE will not be conducted. As NTA was about to keep a close look over this decision and now it is highly expected that authority will postpone NEET 2020 and announce the new exam date soon.
• June 23, 2020: The authority is expected to postpone NEET 2020 and announce the new date after June 25, as the Supreme Court's hearing on CBSE board exam postponement has been delayed till June 25, 2:00 PM. After the apex court judgment on CBSE board exams postponement due to Coronavirus, NTA is expected to take decision on NEET exam date 2020.
  
• June 18, 2020: As per the reports, NEET 2020 new date will be announced by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) by June 22. Also, the proposal to conduct NEET UG in both online and offline mode is being asked in order to avoid crowd at the exam centres.
  
• June 17, 2020: National Testing Agency (NTA) released a notice on the spreading of fake news of NEET UG postponements. Students and their parents/guardians are requested to stay away from these rumors. The investigation is going on and strict action will be taken against it.
  
• June 15, 2020: As per the latest news reports, due to COVID-19, most parents and guardians are worried about CBSE and CICSE exam, which are scheduled from July 1, 2020. Such parents and students are demanding postponement of Class 10 and 12 entrance exams. A petition has also been filed by four parents n the Supreme Court requesting to cancel the board exams due to Corona disease.
• Some online campaign hashtagged such as studentlivesmatter, livesoverexams and cancelboardexams have been launched by parents.
• As per the reports, parents are also demanding to postpone the remaining CBSE board exams in July.
• June 14, 2020: Also, Lokmat mentions that the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia said that the number of COVID-19 cases in Delhi may increase. The official of MHRD mentions in the report that the request by parents and students cannot be ignored.

In order to access the hall ticket for the exam, aspirants have to visit the ntaneet.nic.in 2020 admit card.

What is NEET exam?

For granting medical undergraduate admission, NTA NEET 2020 is the single most important entrance exam. The admission in MBBS, BDS, B.V.Sc & AH and AYUSH courses - BHMS, BAMS, BUMS, BSNS, BYNS will be granted on the basis of NEET 2020 exam.

Exam highlights of NEET

NTA take on NEET 2020 re-postponements

On August 20, 2020, National Testing Agency released the notice regarding the confirmation of the exam date and timings along with the release date of NEET 2020 admit card on the official website. NEET 2020 is going to held on September 13 2020 from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM. The queries regarding the NEET 2020 re-postponements is resolved after the releasing of the NTA official notice mentioning the exam date and timing. Read the official NTA notice of NEET examination day and timing below.

Chances of NEET 2020 to be postponed

As of today, it is tough to predict the chances of NEET postponement further. As, India is on the verge of Unlock 1.0. Where the government is giving some liberalisation in the rule of lockdown. Many of the transportation, working of the offices and many other things have been started. So, it might be possible that NEET 2020 will not postpone further but the fear of the COVID-19 is still revolving around the country. So, candidates may have to appear for the exam with new NEET 2020 exam guidelines. However, due to the number of cases in India and transportation conveyance, it is still a question of doubt whether NEET 2020 will be further postponed or not.

What can be the reason if NEET 2020 will be postponed?

Seeing the current hike in the Corona cases of the country, the situation will be worse, which we all are not hoping there might be a situation where authorities have to postpone the NEET 2020 to the further date. If we see the number of the COVID-19 cases in India on May 3, it was around 40,000 and as per now it has hiked up to around 2 lakhs cases across the country. Due to this Unlock 1.0, we might see a huge hike in the Corona cases in India. According to the AIIMS Director, Randeep Guleria, in India Corona cases might see its peak in the month of June or July, which might be one of the reasons to postpone the NEET 2020 exam.

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Social media influencers on NEET UG 2020 postponements

If the situation worsens, candidates do not want authority to prioritize exams over the health of the aspirants. Social media like Twitter, Facebook people on NEET postponement and describing what they want. Like Twitteratis have demanded and requested Ramesh Pokhriyal to postpone the date, while quora people are asking whether it will be postponed or not.

Twitteratis demands to postpone NEET 2020

The socially active people on twitter are demanding MHRD minister as well the NTA to re-postpone the exam date of NEET 2020. There are some tweets which are demanding the postponement of NEET 2020 with full logics and stats. Aspirants can go through the tweets from below regarding the NEET postponements.

Questions on Quora on NEET 2020 re-postponements

Medical registered aspirants are very anxious to know the answer to the query regarding “Will NEET 2020 be postponed again?” The social media QnA platform like Quora have the plenty of questions regarding the query related to re-postponements of NEET exam. Some of the queries related to NEET 2020 re-postponements have been mentioned below.

NTA Director General on conducting NEET 2020

In the live conversation with Careers360, Mr. Vineet Joshi, NTA DG, has confirmed that special safety measures will be taken for the NEET aspirants appearing for the examination. Aspirants, as well as, parents do not have to worry about safety, rather focus on the NEET 2020 preparations.

The admit card has now been made available on the official website ntaneet.nic.in

Will NEET be a proctored exam?

During the live interaction with NTA DG Mr. Vineet Joshi, Careers360 tried to find the answer on the possibility of NEET proctored exam. Proctored exam is basically a home based exam, where aspirants can appear for the exam by sitting at home in online mode. NTA DG has indicated that NTA is looking at the possibility of making smaller exams home -based and proctored so that the problems of travel and COVID risks will be reduced. If this is successful, then the system will be looked at for the other exams too. However, Joshi clarified that NEET will not be under this.

Experts opinion on NEET 2020 re-postponements

As per the experts of medical education and previous years toppers, candidates should not think about any postponements or any rescheduling of the NEET 2020 exam events. The primary things should be focussed id the preparation for cracking the NEET. As everyone is equally affected and there is no other solution, candidates should take the benefits out of it and do the revision of NEET 2020 as much as they can.

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