JEE (Main) offline test in Hyderabad
The woes of JEE (Main) aspirants from the city are likely to end next year. The Union HRD ministry is “actively considering” to set up test centres in Hyderabad for conducting the offline JEE (Mains) test in April 2014, for which there will be a large number of applicants from the city. Thousands of students from the city have been facing severe hardships in appearing for the JEE offline exam in the last two years as there were no test centres in the city. Nearly 70,000 students and their parents from the city were forced to travel to Warangal, Khammam, Guntur etc to appear for the test.Test centres for the online mode of JEE (Mains) are available in the city since 2012, but there were no takers for that. The large scale influx of Hyderabad students to these tier-II cities had been causing traffic jams and accommodation problems. Parents had to incur huge expenses for travel, boading and lodging facilities. In 2012, several city students missed the test in Warangal as they got s...