Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will announce the JEE Main 2021 dates today, December 16, at 6 pm on his official Twitter account. The minister said that he also will inform about the amount of attempts for the Engineering entrance test. Yesterday, the National Testing Agency (NTA) released a notification mentioning JEE Main 2021 dates, a new exam pattern among other information, which was later withdrawn.
Mr Pokhriyal posted a video message on the microblogging website Twitter informing about the event. He said, “Thank you all for sharing your constructive suggestions regarding JEE (Main) exams. we've got your suggestions examined. i will be able to be announcing the schedule, variety of times the exam are going to be held at 6 PM today. Stay tuned.”
Mr Ramesh Pokhriyal on December 10 held a webinar where he said that the ministry is “positively” reviewing the likelihood of conducting JEE Main in multiple sessions. The deleted notification also mentioned that the doorway exam are going to be held in four sessions.
The education minister had earlier said that the doorway exam are going to be conducted in additional regional languages. aside from English, it's likely that the exam are going to be held in Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.