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The Supreme Court had earlier rejected such a request by 11 students from 11 states.

The Supreme Court today rejected for the second time a request to postpone the engineering and medical exams JEE (Joint Entrance Exam) and NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) on account of the coronavirus crisis. This time, six opposition-ruled states had asked the court to review its earlier order and put off the exams for the safety of lakhs of students.

There is no legitimacy in the request, Justices Ashok Bhushan, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari said in the wake of thinking about it in their chambers. “No case is settled on out for rethinking our previous choice,” said the top court.

The Supreme Court had on August 17 dismissed a comparative solicitation by 11 understudies from 11 states.

Maharashtra, Bengal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Puducherry had chosen to demand the court to reexamine its choice in light of a legitimate concern for understudies.

The states had asserted that the top court request neglected to make sure about understudies’ “entitlement to life” and overlooked “getting teeth calculated challenges” to be looked at in leading the tests during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They had requested the tests to be conceded “in a way that accomplishes the twin destinations of guaranteeing that the scholastic year of the understudies isn’t squandered and their wellbeing and security isn’t undermined.”

JEE began on September 1 and will proceed till September 6 and the NEET test is to be hung on September 13. The state governments that requested the court, similar to Bengal, guarantee that lakhs of understudies couldn’t take the test.

In its prior request, the Supreme Court had would not meddle with the clinical and building placement tests saying “life must go on” and “understudies can’t lose a valuable year because of the pandemic”.

The states’ request called that request “secretive, non-talking” and one that neglected to address different viewpoints and complexities engaged with a matter of this extent. The audit request said the simple reality that lakhs of understudies have enlisted for the test – a contention every now and again set up by the local government – isn’t demonstrative of their assent or their ability or their longing to go to physical tests.

“It is presented that on the off chance that the (August 17 request) isn’t assessed then grave and hopeless damage and injury would come to pass for on the understudy network of our nation and not exclusively will the wellbeing, government assistance and security of the understudies/applicants showing up for the NEET/JEE assessments would stand endangered yet additionally the general wellbeing everywhere would be in serious danger in these COVID-19 pandemic occasions,” the supplication said.