Jamia Scraps Only Exam Centre in South India, Adds Two in North, Central India
Ashlin Mathew | 07 March 2025 | National Herald
In an extremely questionable move, Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) has removed Thiruvananthapuram from its list of entrance test centres. The city, moreover, was the only such centre in south India. Instead, the university has added two test centres in north and central India.
Last year, entrance test centres included Delhi, Lucknow, Guwahati, Patna, Kolkata, Srinagar, and Thiruvananthapuram. This year, test centres are in Delhi, Lucknow, Guwahati, Patna, Kolkata, Srinagar, Malegaon, and Bhopal, with the last two making their debuts as test centres.
According to JMI chief media coordinator Professor Quamrul Hassan, the university has a prospectus committee that decides the centres. “The prospectus committee would have gone through the nitty-gritties of allocating centres in different parts of the country and then decided,” he said….