Christian organisation protest against NDA exam during Easter

Friday, March 10, 2006, 19:33 [IST]

Kochi, Mar 10 (UNI) A local Christian organisation here today protested against the decision of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to conduct exams for the National Defence Academy (NDA) during the Easter holidays.

Addressing a press conference here on behalf of the 'Samyukta Christava Samithi,' president of the Kerala Latin Catholic Association Felix J Pulludan termed the decision as unfortunate and urged the UPSC to revise the exam, scheduled for April 15, to some other date.

He also urged some private engineering colleges, which are to hold their entrance exams on that day, to change the schedule.

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