<span style="color: #222222;">Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) for admission to top engineering colleges in the country commenced today with unprecedented preparations. About 9.58 lakh aspirants have registered for the exam to be conducted from September 1 to 6 across 660 centres.<br />'' <br />'' This is the first such examination to be held in the post covid era involving close to a million students and being held at over six hundred centres through out the country.  <br />'' <br />'' Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh governments have arranged free transportation for candidates. A group of IIT alumni and students have also launched a portal to provide transport facility to exam centres for needy aspirants. Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has appealed to chief ministers to support the candidates.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Director General of National Testing Agency Vineet Joshi said that a comprehensive standard operating procedure for the candidates and centre staff has been put in place to ensure social distancing and secured delivery of the test.</span>