Srinagar, Jun 13: The National Testing Agency (NTA) – the exam conducting body for National Eligibility Test (NET) – has again designated exam centres of hundreds of Kashmiri aspirants outside the Valley.
The NET exam is scheduled between June 20 and 28. “We had opted for centres available in Kashmir but still our centres have been set up outside the valley. We can’t bear the huge expenditures and the scorching heat outside,” said a group of aspirants whose NET exam centre has been set up in Jammu.
“They have taken us for granted. They set up exam centres in very few colleges of the Valley but ignore the universities while setting up exam centres for valley aspirants,” aspirants said.
Earlier this year, the NTA hadn’t set up any exam centres for NEET, GATE and other national level competitive exams, causing inconvenience to the students.
A batch of 500 students had missed GATE-2019 exams as the NTA didn’t set up exam centres in the Valley. Following this, the Governor-led administration had taken up the matter with NTA and MHRD and sought adequate exam centres for all the national level competitive exams.
