Hyderabad: Due to escalating cases of CoronaVirus cases in the Hyderabad, the Telangana government has decided to postpone all the Common Entrance Examinations (CETs) including Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET) 2020. This was informed to the High Court on Tuesday which was dealing with PIL on the exams. This decision was taken because of the coronavirus pandemic in the State.
Telangana government has postponed all Common Entrance Tests, including POLYCET and LPCET, scheduled to be held in Telangana throughout July.
UVSN Murthy, Secretary, State Board of Technical Education on Tuesday informed that the following exams are being postponed:
- POLYCET – 2020 scheduled on July 1, 2020,
- LPCET – 2020 scheduled on July 5, 2020,
- TWSH exams scheduled on July 4, 11 and 12 and
- Diploma supplementary and regular exams scheduled from July 2, 2020, to July 31
“The next date of exams will be announced later,” the order read.
This was informed to the High Court on Tuesday which was dealing with PIL on the exams. This decision was taken because of the coronavirus pandemic in the State.
The common entrance exams postponed are as follow:
- TS EAMCET was to be held from July 6 to 9.
- The Postgraduate Engineering Common Entrance Test was to be conducted from July 1 to 3 and
- The Engineering Common Entrance Test on July 4.
- Law Common Entrance Test and PG Law Common Entrance Test was scheduled on July 10
- Integrated Common Entrance Test and Education Common Entrance Test was on July 13 and 15, respectively.