Students struggle to reach JEE exam centre in Pune due to traffic

Paper 1 (BE/ BTech) of the exam was held connected January 22, 23, 24, 28, and the past insubstantial is scheduled to beryllium held connected Wednesday. The exam is held successful 2 shifts, greeting and afternoon. The Indian Express visited the exam centre connected January 24 and 28 to talk to students and parents astir the difficulties they faced portion arriving astatine the centre.

The exam centre is located astir 1.5km disconnected the Pune-Solapur road towards the Ramtekdi concern area, wherever thousands of students look successful each shift. The roadworthy to scope the centre passes done the JCC Colony slum, wherever a monolithic fig of backstage vehicles dropping exam takers caused bumper-to-bumper postulation jams. This meant students had to get disconnected their vehicles and locomotion done the constrictive roads to scope the centre connected time, adding to accent earlier an already stressful exam.

An aspirant from Solapur said, “I person walked astir a kilometer from Ramtekdi roadworthy to scope the centre due to the fact that of dense traffic.” Similarly, Pratyusha Naik, different aspirant, said, “Due to traffic, my parents parked the car distant from the centre truthful we had to locomotion astir 500-600 metres to get astatine the centre.”

Vijay Pawar, who had travel to driblet a comparative for the exam, said, “I was stuck for astatine slightest 30-45 minutes successful the traffic. Then I had to parkland my conveyance and locomotion to the centre. They should artifact the question of different vehicles erstwhile the exam is going on.”

A authoritative of the National Testing Agency astatine the venue said, “Traffic is not our concern. We are liable for an error-free and creaseless behaviour of examination. Along with everyone else, we excessively are facing the occupation of accrued traffic.”

Deputy Commissioner of Police (traffic) Amol Zende told The Indian Express that much postulation unit would beryllium deployed for the past time of Paper 1 and for the upcoming Paper 2 to guarantee amended postulation flow.