Nagpur, Sep 1(UNI) The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Tuesday said that any student residing in flood-hit parts of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region and is unable to reach the examination centre or reach late can apply to the National Testing Agency to seek a re-examination but refused to stay the JEE-Main examination.
The engineering Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main began at 0900 hrs on September 1 across the country on Tuesday.
A two-member of HC bench, comprising Justices Ravi Deshpande and Pushpa Ganediwala said that the National Testing Agency (NTA) shall consider such applications and decide.
“The situation is grim in several districts due to flood. Students should not suffer for no fault on their part”, the bench said.
“The National Testing Agency shall then decide on the application after consulting with the district collector concerned within a period of 15 days”, the court ordered.
The court said any aggrieved student can file an application to the NTA through their centre coordinator.
The high court on Monday took cognisance of a letter written by Nitesh Bawankar, a resident of Bhandara district, raising concern over how students will reach the exam centres to appear for the JEE amid the flood situation.
Bawankar sought postponement of the exams for students affected by the flood in the parts of Nagpur, Amravati, Akola, Chandrapur, Gondia and Gadchiroli districts.
The court on Monday directed the Central government, Maharashtra government, National Testing Agency and collectors of these districts to consider postponing the JEE-Main for students from flood-affected areas who would be unable to reach the centres to appear for the Exam.
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