Should The Government Postpone The JEE And NEET Exams: Explained

                        
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What do you think guys are exams more important than your lives or not? Yes, I am talking about the JEE and NEET exams. I feel that most of the people would say that our lives are more important. The exams can be later too, but life is more important than anything else. But both our government as well as the Supreme Court have some different opinions about this as they refused the PIL filed for postponing the exams. JEE is the biggest engineering exam in the country, in which more than 11 lakh students appears. It is scheduled between 1st to 6th September and NEET is the biggest medical exam of the country, in which more than 17 lakh students will appear. It is scheduled on the 13th of September 

Concerning these exams, lakhs of students and their parents approached the government and requested it to postpone the exams as it would act as a great risk to the lives of the students and that it would not be safe to conduct them this time. But the government did not listen to them, Thereafter, they approached the Supreme Court which concluded the hearing and ruled that life must progress normally. The exams should be held irrespective of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. While delivering the judgement through video conferencing, Justice Arun Mishra said that life has to go on and since the previous year of the students cannot be wasted, hence they would still conduct these exams Which, in some of you will think as an extremely terrible decision and I will tell you the reasons why it is? so First of all, India has become the third-worst country in the world for the total number of COVID19 cases every day, more than 65,000 new cases are being reported in the country every day! Imagine when lakhs of these students would go to different exam centres and would interact with one another and come near one another, how fast COVID19 would spread further. One great example of this is the USA, where the schools had been reopened two weeks back and 97,000 students tested positive for COVID 19. One might argue that this is not that dangerous for the students, which is true COVID19 does not affect young people as much, Not a lot of symptoms is visible and neither is it that dangerous for them But think about it- When young people get infected and return to their homes, they would infect the people there. Most of the Indian people live in joint families where their grandparents live as well And they are extremely vulnerable as they are elderly And all of these students that are asymptomatic and are not as dangerously affected by the disease, will become asymptomatic carriers and upon interacting with their families will infect the rest of the elderly people in their family and it might become fatal for them. This is the reason why numerous families might not even permit their child to sit for the examinations. They would tell their children to sit at home because they would not want to put their families at risk This would then become a disadvantage for such students. This risk would increase even more if anyone in the family is already suffering from a previous health issue.

                       
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Some would argue that there is nothing to worry about as all the safety measures would be followed then there is nothing to be afraid of and there would be no transmission of the virus. Everything would be sanitized properly and that everyone would use hand sanitizers And everyone would wear masks and maintain social distancing So, then there is nothing to worry about as the virus would not spread I'd just say that this is India guys people in here don't follow anything. So the chances of the transmission of the virus are extremely high. COVID19 is not the sole reason why these exams should be postponed Situations in Bihar, Assam and the other Northeastern states today are in poor shape due to floods these are some photos of the condition How can anyone study or travel to their exam centres in such a situation? What will these students do? There are so many people affected by these floods how will they travel to their exam centres to appear for their exams? Thirdly- How will the candidates in the rest of the country travel to their exam centres? The regular passenger services of the trains still lie suspended Trains are not running as per their normal schedule. So, if transportation lies in such a shoddy state, how do you expect the students to travel when they have been assigned exam centres that are 100-200 kilometres away? The trains are not running! How else would it become possible? This, again, is something that affects the poor people more a similar situation has been created between the UGC(University Grants Commission) and the states UGC has said that all the universities in the country should conduct their exams before the 30th of September That is, this central authority is forcing all the states to conduct the exams Which again, is a problem due to similar reasons compared to other countries like USA and Germany, the governments have said that they would consider on a region by region basis to see which regions are safe enough to conduct exams and to reopen schools and this decision making authority is being granted on a regional basis because some regions have more cases while in some regions, situations are under control. So, this should be done in consideration of that as compared to a decision by a central decision making authority that declares what should be done in the entire country 

                   
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I admit that this is not an easy decision for the government and the Supreme Court to make Because no one knows when the situation would improve or when the vaccine would be invented and for how many more months the situation of COVID19 would remain as grim? But the government and the Supreme court can at least listen to what the students have to say and understand their problems which they did not do this time because it is very clear that the exams can at least be postponed until the next year. After all, the admissions to a lot of colleges are anyway not going to commence before the next year. So, what is the logic behind getting the exams conducted for this? I know that the Supreme Court has already given its judgement but the decision making power is still in the hands of the government 

In my personal opinion I think we post-poning the exams is a good idea to control the spread but on the other hand I also think that for how much time will we post-pone these exams or any other exams?
Look i know we all are concerned about our own lives but this coronavirus is invented by us only. This is the result of our bad deeds and we have to live with this now and if you guys are afraid of this then this just a trailer much more has to come in our way and we can't run from this because these problems are created by us only. Do tell us what do you think about it in the comment sections


AbhishekRawat
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