Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 13: Provincial president of National Conference for Jammu, Rattan Lal Gupta termed the Government as incompetent for allowing chaos in Common University Entrance Test (CUET) as thousands of students were allotted exam centres outside the state, causing inconvenience and distress.
In a statement issued to media persons, the senior NC leader said that students are facing undue harassment as they are forced to move out of the state to take entrance exams for getting admissions in university. He said that sequence of events unravelled the truth about the glaring lack of communication between the National Testing Agency (NTA) and Jammu and Kashmir Government, particularly the Higher Education Department (HED) regarding the conduct of the CUET UG-2023 exam. Why this system is introduced without creating infrastructure to hold CUET in J&K?
Rattan Lal said, it is uncalled for that no prior communication was made between the NTA and the J&K Government regarding the allocation of exam centres outside the region as this serious oversight only came to light after media reports highlighted the issue. He said that such irresponsible attitude towards the issue of vital importance shows that the government is indifferent towards the woes of the common man as students hailing from far off places have to visit cities in different states to appear in the CUET exam. It is also unfortunate that most of the students could not appear in CUET and will wastage one year of their studies.
Rattan Lal also highlighted the grave injustice faced by students residing in far-flung areas of the state. He stated that it severely disadvantages students from remote, inaccessible and backward areas of Jammu region. He emphasized that this arrangement puts undue burden on students who already face various various problems. He demanded that those responsible for this lacuna should be taken to task as there is need to fix responsibility.
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