NEET 2020/ JEE Main: IIT Bombay develops portal to provide transport facility for students to reach exam centre

Students from IIT Bombay has come forward to help students appearing for NEET and JEE to reach to their test centres. Read further to know more.

A team of students at the Indian Institue of Technology (IIT) Bombay has designed a web portal to help candidates who will be appearing for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) get a transport facility to their test centres.

EduRide is a web portal that connects candidates across the country with volunteers willing to drive or arrange a vehicle to their respective test centres. Any NEET 2020 or JEE Main 2020 candidate can log in on the website, enter details of their location and test centres. These details are then matched against volunteers, who are from a network of students and alumni of various IITs.

“We take preferences from a volunteer and he/she could either drive the student or arrange a vehicle for the student. Our portal tries to map a suitable student from a particular area to a volunteer from the same area,” said Kriti Kamna, who handles publicity of the website. The portal is also raising funds to facilitate transport for candidates.

The portal was launched on Saturday and has received almost 200 entries a day for transport. The web portal has been designed keeping in mind the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown in various parts of the country. 

Talking about the initiative, IIT Bombay director Subhasis Chaudhuri said, “In order to help the JEE (Main) and NEET candidates in various locations across the country, several students and alumni of IITs, including those of IIT Bombay, have come forward to connect needy candidates with the volunteers willing to help in transport or monetarily through an online portal http://eduride.in. I request volunteers to help in providing transport to the needy candidates in their neighborhood. Let us all help the future engineers, doctors and scientists of India.”

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