#PostponeGATE2022: Students campaign on Twitter urging IIT Kharagpur to postpone exam

NEW DELHI: A week before Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2022 for admission to postgraduate programmes and recruitment in the public sector, students have started demanding to postpone the exam amid COVID scare. Aspirants have started posting on Twitter with hashtag #postponegate2022.
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A Twitter user listed down all the government exams which were cancelled due to COVID-19 and asked IIT Kharagpur to postpone the exam.

why this exam postponed
why
This all exams are worthless @IITKgp
just put your ego side and being to be top college think about students #postponegate2022 pic.twitter.com/rarRPiMcnM

— Later (@bikash_behera_) January 28, 2022

A student said on Twitter, “See what are all the mental stress you given to us gate2022iitkgp In this situation how we are concentrate in studies.Totally we have spent 1 year for this exam. At last because of your guidelines and your silence makes us all our hardwork will get fail #postponegate2022”

See what are all the mental stress you given to us @gate2022iitkgp
In this situation how we are concentrate in studies.Totally we have spent 1 year for this exam. At last because of your guidelines and your silence makes us all our hardwork will get fail#postponegate2022 pic.twitter.com/h8OMkofxQm

— VenkatRaj (@VenkatR58923363) January 27, 2022

A GATE exam preparation academy came in support of students and tweeted: “Dear IITKgp ! Don't play with our students' life, We urge you to #postponegate2022 for our student's safety. We stand with our students!”

Dear @IITKgp !
Don't play with our students' life, We urge you to #postponegate2022 for our student's safety.
We stand with our students!@PMOIndia @EduMinOfIndia @tewari_virendra @dpradhanbjp

— GATE ACADEMY (@gate_academy) January 28, 2022

Another student tweeted: “Our health and problems are joke to gate2022iitkgp IITKgp They are not giving any response to the aspirants for whom they are conducting #gateexam #postponegate2022 #delayGATE2022”

Our health and problems are joke to @gate2022iitkgp @IITKgp
They are not giving any response to the aspirants for whom they are conducting #gateexam #postponegate2022 #delayGATE2022 pic.twitter.com/JFHl9nTbVa

— Muskan Verma (@Muskanv_08) January 28, 2022

A Twitter user said: “#postponegate2022 Its our honor to say that IITKgp has won "Hypocrite Of The Year Award". I know i know its just January and you are giving an annual award in the start of the year. I am giving this because I know that no one can surpass the hypocrisy of IITKgp”

#postponegate2022
Its our honor to say that @IITKgp has won "Hypocrite Of The Year Award". I know i know its just January and you are giving an annual award in the start of the year. I am giving this because I know that no one can surpass the hypocrisy of @IITKgp. pic.twitter.com/wHqtrrD7R9

— Sameer (@SameerR94034487) January 28, 2022

National General Secretary of NSUI also joined the trends and tweeted: “This is not the right time to conduct exams with a high risk of students' life. Students are already in stress due to current situation of pandemic and it is not the time to give them more mental trauma #postponegate2022”

This is not the right time to conduct exams with a high risk of students' life. Students are already in stress due to current situation of pandemic and it is not the time to give them more mental trauma.#postponegate2022

— Vishal Chaudhary?? (@VishalcINC) January 28, 2022

A Twitter user mentioned postponement of other exams and asked IIT Kharagpur to defer GATE 2022.

.@IITKGP Is 100K TWEETS even to make you come of out your FALLACY world. It's time to stop riding your HIGH HORSES and there's still chance for you to have an epiphany. #postponegate2022 pic.twitter.com/VRrmGXcG1E

— Ada. (@legionsunited91) January 28, 2022

NSUI Bihar also tweeted: “No one considers the Mental Pressures and battles that engineers preparing for entrance exam have to go through. #postponegate2022”

No one considers the Mental Pressures and battles that engineers preparing for entrance exam have to go through.#postponegate2022

— NSUI Bihar (@NSUIBihar) January 28, 2022

Another Congressian, National Secretary at IndianYouthCongress tweeted: “Delaying or postpone is the best way to support students in this third wave of pandemic, Government has to ensure the security of the students too, the rude behaviour of IITKgp is not the way of any reputated institute with their future students ! #postponegate2022 #delayGATE22”

Delaying or postpone is the best way to support students in this third wave of pandemic, Government has to ensure the security of the students too, the rude behaviour of @IITKgp is not the way of any reputated institute with their future students !#postponegate2022#delayGATE22

— Shesh Narayan Ojha (@sheshnojha) January 28, 2022