Irfan Tramboo
Srinagar, Dec 9 : Filling up of National Eligibility and Entrance Examination Test (NEET) application forms has turned out to be a traumatic process for thousands of students from the Valley. The process which usually takes 20 minutes is making students wait for days together.
Scores of students every morning reach the facilitation centre that has been set up by the Government at the Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) in Srinagar. However, the students said that the facilities are not enough as there are so many students who are to fill the forms while there are few computers available.
Almost every student who reached TRC today has been coming here for last more than 5 days now and the majority of them are yet to submit their forms as they have not so far been able to get their slot to fill the form.
“I have been coming here for last four days now, but every day I come here, I fail to fill up the form due to the rush as it is the only centre where the forms are being filled up,” Wani Faizan Ishaq, a student from Shopian, said.
Waiting at the TRC in bone chilling cold, Wani said: “We have to write down our names and whosoever comes first gets chance to fill the form. Since I come from a far off place, it takes me a lot of time to reach here that is the reason that I am yet to fill the form.”
As per students, around 150 application forms are usually filled up at the TRC while as on the other hand there are more than 25,000 students who are set to appear for the examination if they manage to fill their forms. There are only around 10 computer systems that are available for the students.
Another student, Saqlain Mushtaq Bhat from Kupwara also narrated the same ordeal. “For last 4 days I am continuously coming here and I am yet to fill up the form; on Sunday, I managed to reach here at around 6.30 am,” he said.
Filling up the application form is not the only headache that the students have to bear. Applicants for the OTPs have to provide the contact numbers of their friends who are outside J&K.
Students, while criticizing the authorities for carrying on with a sustained gag on the internet services said that in order to fill up the form which usually takes 20 minutes, it takes them days together. “We could have utilized this time for our studies; at least they could have put more such centres in districts as well,” they said.
Danish Imtiyaz, a student from Shopian told Excelsior that he was finally able to submit his NEET application form after the passage of more than 6 days. “I have been coming here for last 6 days and as I reached here on Sunday early in the morning, I managed to get the serial number 40; after reaching here at 7 am, I was finally able to submit my form at around 4 in the evening,” he said.
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