As per reports, this year, six students from a slum in Govandi, Mumbai, have set a marvellous example for children across the country as they have cleared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
Even though the Govandi slum is infamous for crimes and drug cases, one of the NEET qualifiers, Jaiba Khan whose father is reportedly a doctor, told the media agency ANI that she became determined to crack the medical entrance exam after witnessing a shortage of doctors during the outbreak of the coronavirus.
In the past, Maharashtra, along with six states in the country had moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its initial order in favour of conducting the examinations in the month of September. On August 28, six ministers from non-BJP states filed a review petition in the apex court in a bid to seek review of its order permitting the Centre to conduct the JEE and NEET entrance examinations this year in the midst of the pandemic. The review plea was filed by ministers from Maharashtra (Uday Ravindra Sawant), West Bengal (Moloy Ghatak), Jharkhand (Rameshwar Oraon), Rajasthan (Raghu Sharma), Chhattisgarh (Amarjeet Bhagat), and Punjab (BS Sidhu).
In the past, the SC had rejected a petition filed by several students seeking cancellation of the exams further stating that the NEET for medical admissions and the JEE examinations for IIT admissions would be held as per the scheduled schedule. This decision got into a lot of controversies, as students long with several popular leaders across the country protested against this decision in view of the pandemic.
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