By: SRhree1news, 17 MAR 2021
BHUBANESWAR: The State government has urged the National Testing Agency (NTA) to arrange examination centres at all the 30 district headquarter towns in Odisha for the convenience of examinees in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Additional Chief Secretary of Health department PK Mohapatra has written to NTA DG Vineet Joshi requesting him to set up examination centres for NEET UG 2021 in every district. The NTA has proposed to set up examination centres at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Berhampur, Balasore and Angul.
Mohapatra mentioned Odisha has huge tribal pockets that are inaccessible and far away from urban centres due to which students often are unable to appear the examination.
Source:A-N