The Mamata Banerjee administration in West Bengal cancelled the lockdown on 12 September, bearing in mind the National Eligibility Cum Entry Test scheduled a day later.
GoWB initially announced a state-wide lockdown on September 11 – 12, 2020.
In view of the NEET 2020 exam scheduled for 13th, we received numerous requests from the student community to lift the locking standards on 12th, helping to ease their travel to the examination centres.
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Keeping their interest in mind, while keeping the statewide lockdown as it is on September 11, 2020 it was decided to cancel the lockdown on Sep 12, 2020 so that students could appear in the examination scheduled to be held on September 13, 2020 without any apprehension or concern.
GoWB had initially announced a statewide lockdown on Sep 11th & 12th. Considering the NEET 2020 examination scheduled on 13th, we have received numerous requests from the student community on lifting lockdown norms on 12th, helping ease their travel to examination centres. (1/2)
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) September 10, 2020
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Earlier the chief minister had said that nearly 75% of the candidates could not attend the Joint Entrance Examination on September 1, 2020 because of the pandemic.
The state government had in August enforced lockdown on six days. On September 7, 2020 the first lockdown of the month was enforced.
The Kolkata Metro has also decided to run 66 trains on Sunday so that NEET candidates can reach the exam centres without much hassle.
