text: JEE Main and NEET to be held as per schedule in September: Officials | Udayavani – ಉದಯವಾಣಿ
  Saturday, 02 Jul 2022 | UPDATED: 03:51 AM IST
  PTI, Aug 21, 2020, 10:00 PM IST
  The statement said that "142 candidates have subsequently requested for a change in their allotted centre city due to various reasons, and the NTA is considering these requests positively."
  It said as far as, "NEET (UG)-2020 is concerned, again for the first time, candidates of this examination were given opportunity five times to change their choice of centre city."
  Ministry officials asserted that the JEE (Main) and the NEET exams will be conducted in September as scheduled. There have been demands from several students and parents to further postpone the entrance exams in view of increasing coronavirus cases.
  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking postponement of JEE (Main) April 2020 and NEET-Undergraduate examinations, which are scheduled to be conducted in September, amid a spurt in the number of COVID-19 cases, saying the precious year of students "cannot be wasted" and life has to go on.
  The NTA said it has made elaborate arrangements to sanitise centres before and after the examinations and give fresh masks and hand gloves.
  In order to solicit the support of States for maintaining law and order, power supply, facilitation of movement of candidates and exam functionaries, crowd management in front of exam centres, "we have also written to the state chief secretaries, DGPs, and DMs/ SPs of the concerned cities", the NTA said.