any delay in holding the jee and neetug exams will lead to a zero academic year resulting in a loss for students education minister ramesh pokhriyal told toi citing examples of chinas gaokao and germanys abitur exams held during covid19 the minister said political considerations should be shelved in the interests of the students excerptsthere are a lot of students still calling for postponementread alsoexplained row over neet jee examinationsnew delhi amid the rising clamour from students for postponing the jee and neet exams in view of the coronavirus pandemic the opposition parties have also joined the chorus calling the move antistudents while demanding that the exams should be either cancelled or delayed while the neet ismamata urges cms to jointly move sc over neet jee examswest bengal chief minister mamata banerjee on wednesday urged states to jointly move the supreme court to postpone entrance examinations neet and jee as the students are not prepared due to the covid19 pandemic earlier mamata had written to prime minister narendra modi urging the centralneet jee main 2020 all precautions in place to conduct exams says nta chiefthe national testing agency nta on wednesday said it is fully prepared to conduct the jee main and neet for admission to engineering and medical courses respectively in a safe and secure manner with all precautions in place in the wake of the pandemic as of 8 pm a total of 153 lakhneetug admit cards 2020 now available ntaneetnicinaccording to government sources the rescheduled exams would be conducted on september and nta is going to issue the admit cards for neetug from wednesdaywhat do you want to tell these candidates though we are facing a pandemic situation academics and career of students cannot be jeopardised life must go on and we have to stand strong a further delay in the examinations will lead to a zero academic year resulting in an enormous loss even abroad chinas gaokhao and germanys abitur entrance exams were conducted overcoming covid19 fears india also needs to stand strong and participate in the smooth conduct of jee and neetnta has been vigilant and jee exams have been postponed from april 511 to july 18 23 and now september 16 neet was rescheduled from may 3 to july 26 and then to september 13 nta has taken all necessary measures for the safety of students nta has defined sops based on recommendations of medical experts with a consideration of various government directives and guidelines a total of 75 lakh candidates out of 958 lakh appearing for jee have downloaded admit cards only 332 candidates have requested for change of their centre cities which is being considered for neetug a total of 99 lakh candidates out of 1597 lakh have downloaded the admit cards so farthe opposition is also clamouring for postponement and a few cms even decided to seek a review in the supreme court in the interest of students and aspirations of parents and honouring the orders and observations of the