Jee-advanced to be held on July 3
NEW DELHI: The Jee-advanced test for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology will be conducted on July 3, Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ announced on Thursday, adding that the relaxation in the eligibility criterion pertaining to class 12 marks will be offered this year too.
“Jee-advanced will be conducted by IIT Kharagpur on July 3. The relaxation in admission requirement of 75 per cent marks in class 12 which was announced last year in view of Covid-19 pandemic will be offered this year as well,” Nishank said.
For admissions to IITS, apart from qualifying the Joint Entrance Examination (Jee)-advanced, the candidates are required to secure either minimum 75 per cent marks in class 12 board exams or rank among the top 20 percentile in their qualifying examinations.
While Jee-mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, tor march, led by senior BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, moved towards Palwal.
“In the coming days, we will intensify our agitation against the three farm laws. Around 2,500 tractors from Haryana have participated in today’s march.
“We want to warn that if the government doesn’t not accept our demands, farmers’ protest will get intensified further,” it is considered as a qualifying test for Jee-advanced.
The minister had on January 4 said he will announce the exam schedule on Thursday.
“My dear students, I will announce the eligibility criteria for admission in IITS and the date of JEE Advanced on January 7 at 6 pm. Stay tuned!” the minister wrote on Twitter.
Earlier the minister had announced that Joint Entrance Exam (Main) will be conducted in four sessions in February, March, April and May starting from February 23 to 26, 2021. The next sessions of the exam will be held between March 15-18, April 27-30 and May 24-28.
JEE Main will be conducted in English, Hindi and 11 other languages, instead of just English and Hindi as is the practice now, to give opportunities to students
Abhimanyu Kohar, a senior member of Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, told PTI.
The tractor march started from four different points -Singhu to Tikri Border, Tikri to Kundli, Ghazipur to Palwal and Rewasan to Palwal.
“The government has been hosting meeting after meeting. They know what we want. We want the laws to be repealed, but all we get are futile talks. With this rally, we want to give them a glimpse of what we can do, and what we will do on January 26.
“Today, the rally is happening on the periphery of Delhi, but when our farmer leaders decide that we need to enter the capital, we will do that,” Harjinder Singh, a participant of tractor march from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, said.
Braving severe cold and spofrom regional language backgrounds, the minister had said.
The regional languages will include Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, Bengali and Assamese.
The new format will help reduce the chances of JEE Main clashing with other competitive examinations or board examinations, the minister said.
Last month, the Union education minister had announced that the CBSE class 10th and 12th board exams 2021 will be conducted from May 4 to June 10 and the results will be declared by July 15.
Usually, practical exams are conducted in January and written exams begin in February and conclude in March. However, the exams are being delayed this session in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PERCHED ON THEIR TRACTORS, PROTESTING FARMERS MOVED THROUGH THE PROTEST SITES, WITH SPEAKERS BELTING OUT MUSIC
radic rains, thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points for over 40 days, demanding repeal of the farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues.
Enacted in September, the three farm laws have been projected by the Centre as major reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and allow farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws would pave the way for eliminating the safety cushion of the MSP and do away with the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporates.