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The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on May 19, that the common university entrance examination for undergraduate admissions (CUET UG) in Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will henceforth be held on May 29 and May 26, respectively.
The decision to postpone the exams in Manipur follows a recommendation from the state government due to ongoing ethnic tensions in the northeastern state. In J&K, the NTA has rescheduled the exam to build temporary examination centres throughout the region, making it easier for candidates to give the exam.
The NTA emphasised in a statement that the CUET UG exams will be held as scheduled in the remaining parts of the country, in accordance with the National Education Policy 2020. The exams are scheduled to take place from May 21 to June 6.
“After contacting the state (Manipur) administration, it has been advised to keep all examinations in the state of Manipur from 29 May 2023 onwards,” the agency said in the statement.
According to the NTA, 3,697 candidates from Manipur chose to appear in the exam in the state.
“However, NTA has carefully reviewed the law-and-order situation in consultation with the state administration and contacted these candidates by telephone for asking their preferred city for the said examination. Some candidates who were not in Manipur or wanted to take the examination in another State/City are being allocated to other cities i.e., Delhi, Guwahati, etc. The option for a change of centre for candidates from Manipur is still available,” the agency said.
Candidates who have already received their admit cards for exams scheduled between May 21 and 24, as well as city intimation slips for exams scheduled between May 25 and 28, have been asked to contact the NTA if they want to change their examination centres from Delhi, Guwahati, and so on to Imphal.
In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the agency stated that temporary examination centres would be established in the Kashmir area due to an exceptional increase in the number of applications from the Union territory this year.
University Grants Commission (UGC) chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar, who is monitoring the CUET with NTA, said, “Being sensitive to the needs of candidates and to facilitate the students of Jammu and Kashmir, the NTA is exploring the possibility of creating temporary centres in Kashmir. Therefore, it has been decided that the CUET (UG) will now be conducted from May 26, 2023 onwards in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir.”
The NTA was in a hurry to arrange enough centres in J&K and Jharkhand due to a rise in CUET applications, prompting it to extend the exam deadline across the country until June 6.
According to officials, 87,309 students from J&K have applied for the exam this year, which is more than six times the number who applied last year. This figure nearly seven times increased in Jharkhand, from 26,497 to 178,630.
Kumar said the J&K administration is helping to set up new exam centres. “We are trying to give centres to maximum students appearing from J&K within the state. In the case of Delhi students, whose centres are in Meerut, we are also in the process of shifting as many as possible back to the NCR region,” he said.
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