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<ul><li>The <keyword id="6357783" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-bengal">West Bengal</keyword> CM said if the exams are conducted as scheduled, it would put students' lives at risk from the Covid-19 pandemic.</li><li>It is to be noted that <keyword id="6361994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="NEET">NEET</keyword> is scheduled on September 13 and JEE-Mains will be held from September 1-6.</li><li>Earlier, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi had also urged <keyword id="1205297" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Bharatiya-Janata-Party">the Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword> (BJP)-led central government to consider the 'Mann Ki Baat' of students and address the postponement issue of the entrance examinations. </li></ul> West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Baner<keyword id="6392660" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="JEE">jee</keyword> on Monday urged the Centre for the second time to postpone NEET, JEE 2020. She said that the exams should not be held until the situation is conducive again. The West Bengal CM said if the exams are conducted as scheduled, it would put students' lives at risk from the Covid-19 pandemic. "In our last video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modiji, I had been vocal against the UGC guidelines mandating completion of terminal examinations in universities and colleges by the end of September 2020, which had a huge potential to put student lives at risk," Banerjee tweeted. It is to be noted that NEET is scheduled on September 13 and JEE-Mains will be held from September 1-6. "Now with the directive of the Education Ministry to conduct NEET, JEE 2020 in September, I would again appeal to the Centre to assess the risk and postpone these examinations until the situation is conducive again,a she said. Earlier, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi had also urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government to consider the 'Mann Ki Baat' of students and address the postponement issue of the entrance examinations. Meanwhile, India on Monday recorded 61,408 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 836 deaths in the last 24-hours. "It is our duty to ensure a safe environment for all our students," Banerjee said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/latest-job-openings-at-google-microsoft-jp-morgan-goldman-sachs-ericsson-amazon-adobe-zomato-for-software-engineers/slidelist/77585263.cms">Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Ericsson and other companies hiring software engineers in India right now</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/the-heat-is-on-mark-zuckerberg-in-india-as-facebook-and-whatsapp-incur-the-ire-of-modis-rivals/articleshow/77575358.cms">The heat is on Mark Zuckerberg in India as Facebook and WhatsApp incur the ire of Modi's rivals</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/the-top-9-movies-on-netflix-this-week-from-aposjurassic-parkapos-to-aposwork-itapos/slidelist/77548389.cms">The top 9 movies on Netflix this week, from 'Jurassic Park' to 'Work It'</a>

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urges Centre to postpone NEET-JEE 2020

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword> has paused its medical exams to allow student doctors and nurses to fight COVID-19.</li><li>The country has reported more than 20 million cases, the second-highest case toll in the world.</li><li>India has been struggling to fight the surge, with shortages in labor, beds, oxygen, and vaccines.</li></ul>India postponed its medical exams so that doctors and nurses in training can help with the country's devastating COVID-19 surge.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday approved the pausing of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for postgraduate medics (NEET-PG) for at least four months, <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/on-duty-final-yr-medical-students-pre-pg-doctors/articleshow/82378742.cms">The Economic Times reported</a>.India's medical system has been struggling to cope with the unprecedented wave of cases amid an acute shortage of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-indias-covid-19-surge-die-stretchers-hospitals-2021-4">bed space</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-covid-19-black-market-oxygen-crisis-1000-markup-2021-4">oxygen</a>, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-doesnt-have-enough-covid-19-vaccines-its-own-population-2021-4">vaccines</a>. The problem has also been complicated by the emergence of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/double-mutant-coronavirus-variant-california-india-2021-4">a new variant first identified in the country</a>. The country's total case count surpassed 20 million <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases on Tuesday, making it the second-highest in the world after the US.However, the actual figure may be far higher than reported, <a href="https://time.com/5954416/india-covid-second-wave/">according to Time</a>. The death toll - currently logged at just over 222,000 - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-covid-19-death-toll-could-be-10-times-higher-2021-5">may also be under-reported</a>. The country reported 368,000 new cases on Sunday, lower than its Friday reported peak of just over 400,000, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to Johns Hopkins University's case tracker</a>.Several states had already pressed final-year students into duty, <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/govt-likely-to-incentivise-medical-students-joining-covid-duty-amid-second-wave-modi-meeting-neet-mbbs-11619943635233.html">according to the Indian economic newspaper Mint</a>. For example, as of Saturday the city Kolkata had called around 3,000 trainee doctors into service, <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/state-to-call-back-3000-med-students/articleshow/82334369.cms">The Times of India reported</a>. Modi's Monday decision now frees up a large pool of medical students nationwide to tackle the virus without exams looming. His move followed calls from the influential cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty, who outlined the numbers of doctors and nurses needed to see out the crisis at a recent conference, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/lack-of-doctors-and-nurses-to-treat-covid-patients-will-be-the-next-big-crisis-dr-devi-shetty-7298066/">The Indian Express reported</a>."Once the oxygen problem is solved, the next problem over the next few weeks will be the death of patients in ICUs because there are no nurses and doctors to take care of them," Shetty was reported as saying, arguing that students must be pressed into service to fill the backlog.

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