CENTRE DEFERS JEE (MAIN) MAY SESSION AS COVID SPIKE CONTINUES

Amid rising Covid-19 cases in the country, Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday announced that the Joint Entrance Exam — Main (JEE Main) — May 2021 session has been postponed.

“Students are advised to keep visiting the official website of NTA for further updates,” Pokhriyal tweeted.

The JEE (Main)-2021 May session was scheduled on May 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28. “However, keeping the present situation in mind, the JEE (Main) — 2021 May session is also being postponed,” National Testing Agency (NTA) said.

Earlier, JEE (Main) April session had been postponed due to the upsurge in Covid-19 cases.

The JEE (Main)-2021 April Session, which was scheduled on April 27, 28, and 30, has already been postponed due to the pandemic.

The rescheduling of the April and May sessions will be done subsequently. The registration for the May Session will also be announced at a later stage, NTA said.

The first two sessions have already been completed in February and March.

The students have been advised to visit the official NTA website (nta.ac.in) and (jeemain.nta.nic.in/) for the latest updates related to the exams.

Earlier, on Monday, the union education ministry asked all the central funded higher educational institutions to postpone all offline examinations scheduled in May as coronavirus cases are surging across India. Meanwhile, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 20 million mark with over 500,000 infections being added in just 15 days. The total tally of coronavirus cases mounted to 20, 282,833 with 357,229 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll increased to 2,22,408 with 3,449 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.