new delhi the supreme court is scheduled to consider on friday a plea of ministers of six oppositionruled states seeking review of its august 17 order allowing holding of neet and jee exams physicallythe ministers had claimed that the top court order failed to secure students right to life and ignored teething logistical difficulties to be faced in conducting the exams during the covid19 pandemicnational testing agency nta which conducts both the exams is holding jee main exams from september 1 to september 6 while neet exams will be held on september 13a bench of justices ashok bhushan b r gavai and krishna murari will consider the review plea in chambersthe review matters in the top court are usually considered inchambers through circulation of the petition among all the judges of the bench the judges then decide inchambers whether there is any merit in the review petition to reexamine the case in the open court hearingthe apex courts august 17 order which allowed the exams to be held has become a political battle as the ministers of six states ruled by parties like congress tmc jmm ncp and shiv sena sought postponement of the exams in a manner that achieves the twin objectives of ensuring that the academic year of the students is not wasted and their health and safety is not compromisedthe review plea has been filed by ministers from west bengal moloy ghatak jharkhand rameshwar oraon rajasthan raghu sharma chhattisgarh amarjeet bhagat punjab b s sidhu and maharashtra uday ravindra sawantthe plea filed through advocate sunil fernandes said the apex court order fails to satisfy the safety and security concerns of students who have to appear for the examsthe top court had refused to interfere with the conduct of the medical and engineering entrance exams saying that life must go on and students cant lose a precious year due to the pandemicthe apex court had on august 17 dismissed a plea by one sayantan biswas and others seeking direction to nta to postpone them after solicitor general tushar mehta assured that all safeguards would be takenterming the decision to conduct the exam as irrational the plea said that the top court failed to appreciate that the union government had adequate time to establish at least one centre for every district for neet ug and jee mains rather than having several centres in one districtthe review petition said the mere fact that lakhs of students have registered for the exam is not indicative of their consent or their willingness or their desire to attend physical examsit said the august 17 order is cryptic nonspeaking and does not discuss various aspects and complexities involved in a matter of this magnitudethe plea said that only two reasons given by the court life must go on and students should not lose an academic year do not constitute an authoritative and comprehensive judicial scrutiny of the issueit said that the apex courts observation that life must go on may