Face masks distributed at JEE centre in Bhagalpur

BHAGALPUR: Students appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) at TCS iON centre in the town on the first day on Tuesday. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has allotted only 33% examinees against the seating capacity in each examination hall.
There are four centres for conducting JEE (Main) in Bhagalpur district. They are TCS iON in Barari Industrial Area, India Exam Centre at Kutchery Chowk, Shruti Educational and Charitable Trust Exam Centre at Manali Chowk and Bhagalpur Online Exam Centre at SM College Road.The JEE will be held at all the four centres from Wednesday till September 6.
The examination is to be conducted in two shifts till September 6. The examinees were made to wear face masks and use sanitiser besides maintaining other norms amid Covid-19 pandemic. The examinees reported at the centre at 7.00am, 2 hours before the commencement of the examination, in order to go through thermal scanning and other security check-ups, besides admit cards verification at the TCS iON centre.
“We provided free face mask to all the examinees at the centre,” said a centre official, preferring anonymity. Those who already had face masks were asked to discard them at the entrance gate and to wear the standard (N95) face masks provided at the centre. “We checked the bar code on the admit card to verify the authenticity of appearing candidates. The candidates were sanitised and passed through thermal screening before entering the main gate of the centre,” he said.
“Facilities like pure drinking water have been made. We are taking all Covid-19 protocol and other preventive measures,” he added.
Bhagalpur DM Pranav Kumar, when contacted, said arrangements have been made at all the centres for maintaining social distancing in the backdrop of Covid-19 pandemic.