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NTA rejects fake news circulated on social media about (JEE) exam date

Staff Reporter

News of revised dates regarding Joint Enterance Examination (JEE) being circulated on social media has been declared 'fake' by National Testing Agency (NTA). The news says that NTA will conduct JEE Main in by first week.

However, NTA has issued an official notice calling the circulated news as fake.

It is to be noted that the JEE Main exam has been postponed due to COVID 19 outbreak across the world. Various sources have been circalating false news related to it.

In the official notice issued by NTA on its official website reads, "It has come to the notice of the National Testing Agency (NTA) that a fake Public Notice

dated 14 April 2020 has been circulating in social media regarding rescheduling of the  JEE(Main) examination to the first week of July 2020. All candidates who are due to appear for JEE(Main) examination are hereby informed that there is no truth in the circulated fake Public Notice." 

The notice also reads that the candidates are advised not to be misled by such false information and fake notices.

It has also been mentioned in the notice that the NTA will also take strict action by filing an FIR under relevant provisions of the IT Act and IPC against those unscrupulous elements who are creating and circulating such false information to mislead the candidates.

The candidates and their parents are also advised to only rely on the authentic  information available on the official website of NTA jeemain.nta.nic.in and  www.nta.ac.in for latest updates or call at 8287471852, 8178359845, 9650173668, 9599676953 and 8882356803 for any further clarification.