Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 10: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday declined to restrain National Testing Agency from conducting JEE Mains 2023 examination on the scheduled dates.
“Any orders passed to postpone may have a cascading effect. If a student does not fare well in JEE January, he can compete in April. Extraordinary circumstances don’t seem to exist. It wouldn’t be appropriate to restrain the respondent from conducting a pan India exam,” said the court.
The decision was made in response to a PIL that requested the next JEE Mains exam be postponed. It also challenges the eligibility criterion of 75 percent marks in Class XII.
“The respondent no. 1 (National Testing Agency) failed to appreciate the fact that many students appearing for the upcoming exams are the students from the batches of the pandemic period. Those students were evaluated on different scales/parameters which necessarily don’t reflect the actual capabilities of the candidates,” the petition filed by activist Anubha Srivastava contends.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), which announced the dates of the JEE Mains, 2023 from January 24 to December 31, 2023 and provided the minimal eligibility requirements, was challenged in the PIL.
In contrast to the customary 3 to 4 months in prior years, the petition claims that the notification was sent with only a short notice of 40 days. The schedule also conflicts with board practical exams, pre-board exams, internal evaluations, vivas, etc. of different boards.
The court was informed that JEE Mains will collide with a number of other competitive tests that are also scheduled for January 2023. Students taking the JEE Mains may not be able to attend the NDA SSB interview, which has been planned for January 23 to 27, 2023, according to the appeal.
