SC to listen to on May 13 plea for postponement of NEET-PG 2022 examination

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to listen to on May 13 a plea of docs looking for postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2022 which is scheduled to be held on May 21 on the bottom that it’ll conflict with the continuing counselling for NEET-PG 2021.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and PS Narasimha mentioned that it’ll hear the matter which is already listed for listening to on Friday after senior advocate Rakesh Khanna talked about for pressing itemizing of the petition.

The bench requested Khanna whether or not the petitioners need postponement of the examination to which he replied in affirmative.

Justice Chandrachud mentioned, “How can we postpone a national examination? Anyway we will hear it next week”.

Khanna mentioned that the matter is already listed for Friday to which the bench mentioned then it would hear it on May 13.

The plea filed by advocates Ashutosh Dubey and Abhishek Chauhan mentioned, “The petitioners are the docs who’re doing their requisite internship with totally different hospitals throughout the nation.

The petitioners aspire to look in NEET-PG examination 2022 scheduled to be held on May 21 for the aim of selecting their profession choice as per their rating, alternative, and obtainable choices to them beneath totally different branches of medical science for Post-Graduation Courses”.

The plea sought route to quash the notification dated February 4 issued by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences for holding the NEET PG-2022 examination on May 21 and or defer the scheduled date of the examination.

It mentioned that a number of the petitioners and aspirants are the candidates who’ve appeared in NEET-PG 2021 and are contributors within the ongoing counselling course of which is unlikely to get concluded by May 9, 2022, contemplating the roller-coaster experience which they’ve been subjected to since July 2021.

“The petitioners and other thousands of aspirants are becoming victims of the system and are made to suffer for no fault of their own”, the plea mentioned, which has been filed by 15 docs who’ve performed their MBBS programs.

The plea mentioned it raises substantial and essential questions of legislation like as to why ought to NEET-PG 2022 aspirants/candidates be made to endure and never be given a good alternative for participation within the NEET-PG examination 2022 when the counselling of final educational yr NEET-PG 2021 continues to be present process and prone to be over by May 9.

It additional raised the query of whether or not the petitioners could be disadvantaged of even filling up varieties for the NEET-PG examination 2022, because the final date for it was closed on March 25 and the petitioners being contributors in AIQ Mop-UP counselling didn’t fill out a type than within the hope of getting the seat and now after the cancellation of AIQ Mop-UP on March 31 due to the fault of the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) and others.

It mentioned that the petitioners at the moment are not even allowed to fill varieties for the NEET-PG examination and thus the candidates neither bought the seat in 2021 examination counselling nor may register for NEET-PG 2022 examination and can be losing a full yr with out their fault.

The plea raised a number of different substantial questions of legislation.

It mentioned, “Thus it’s said that the current petition is filed with an intention to safe the way forward for the petitioners permitting them to excel within the instructional sphere of their life.

It is submitted that NEET-PG 2022 aspirants/candidates shouldn’t be made to endure and be given a good alternative to take part within the NEET-PG examination 2022 when the counselling of final yr’s NEET-PG 2021 continues to be present process and prone to be over by May 9″.

The plea additional mentioned that there was a delay in conducting the NEET-PG 2021 examination to make sure the provision of a bigger variety of certified docs for COVID duties and the examination was lastly carried out in September 2021, 5 months after the scheduled date, resultantly due to this delay, the candidates have virtually misplaced a yr of their careers.

“That the respondents have erred in not considering that the NEET-PG 2022 examination was rescheduled from March 12, 2022, to that of May 21, 2022, as the counselling of NEET-PG 2021 was not over and overlapping with the examination date”, it mentioned.

The plea sought MCC to inform a recent date of examination for NEET-PG 2022 after eight weeks in order that the problem of counselling for the NEET-PG 2021 examination will get settled and there’s no overlap with NEET-PG 2022 examination.

It additionally sought route to MCC and Centre to allow the scholars/aspirants to register themselves for the NEET-PG 2022 examination as they had been taking part in counselling for NEET-PG 2021 examination and the final date of filling the shape was of March 25.