NEET PG 2023 Postponement News, Supreme Court Hearing Updates: The Supreme Court today heard the petition for postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Post Graduate (NEET PG) 2023. However, no decision was taken, as the bench has decided to hear the plea further on Monday. Aspirants and FAIMA delegates have been protesting for the past few weeks, demanding deferment of the exam.
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NEET PG is scheduled to be conducted on March 5. The result for the same will be available tentatively by March 31. However, FAIMA (Federation of All India Medical Association) and aspirants claim that if the time between the entrance exam and the counselling is not reduced, then it will lead to a waste of time for candidates.
“The NEET PG aspirants will not be able to apply for jobs during this time as there is a dearth of jobs in the medical industry and people usually don’t offer jobs for such short time periods. Due to this, the few months between the exam and counselling will be a complete waste for students. If the authorities delay the NEET PG, at least students will be able to study properly and then get better scores, rather than wasting time,” Dr Rakesh Bagdi Gurjar, former FAIMA chief told indianexpress.com. Read less
NEET PG 2023 Postponement News Updates: Some experts have also claimed that as some people did not have enough time to prepare due to the internship cut-off, it will be unfair for them as they did not get enough time to prepare. The NBE initially announced internship cut-off date of March 30, which was extended by the body in January to June 30, and then to August 11.
The Supreme Court will today resume the hearing of the petition for postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Post Graduate (NEET PG) 2023. The plea was earlier heard by the bench on February 24. Check LIVE Updates
The petitioners, through their counsel Tanvi Dubey, have raised the issue of eligibility criteria been modified twice by the NBE and claimed that it reflects the oversight and mismanagement on its part of not consulting the state medical bodies in advance, thereby giving no time to the candidates to prepare.
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Several medical aspirants and FAIMA (Federation of All India Medical Association) delegates have been protesting for weeks demanding the postponement of the NEET PG 2023 exam.
FAIMA (Federation of All India Medical Association) delegates and aspirants claim that if the time between the entrance exam and the counselling is not reduced, then it will lead to a waste of time for candidates.
NEET PG is scheduled to be conducted on March 5. The result for the same will be available tentatively by March 31.
The bench has passed over the matter for the appearance of Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhat on behalf of NBE. The case will be taken up after sometime.
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'First you say you are not eligible. When you were made eligible, you say there is no time for exam. Those who have been preparing for months together were told that they wait for months. We are also aware when we postpone..the agony of candidates who have prepared...the whole dynamics changes," the bench said.
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'The gap now between exam and counselling in 5 months now. Previously, it was one month. As a consequence we are getting less time... We are asking the exam to be pushed a little. It was pushed last year,' Senior Adv Gopal Shankaranarayanan told the bench.
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'Counselling cannot be divided. It will happen after 11.08.2023,' says Senior Adv Gopal Shankaranarayanan
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'There are 13 petitioners before your lordships...But about 45,000 other would be affected,' Sr. Adv. Gopal Sankaranarayanan told the Bench
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Supreme Court has started hearing the NEET PG 2023 postponement plea
It has also been alleged that the students who were earlier not eligible for the exam (but are eligible now due to the revised guidelines) did not get enough time to prepare. “It is unfair for the students who have less time to prepare. The syllabus for NEET PG 2023 exam is vast and it takes time to even revise. The candidates who did not have enough time to prepare will suffer,” Dr Rakesh Bagdi Gurjar, former FAIMA chief told indianexpress.com. Read more
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The bench has announced lunch break for now. Senior Adv Gopal Shankaranarayanan mentioned the matter before the bench rose, and has said that it will be considered after 2 pm, according to LiveLaw.
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NBE is claiming that postponing the exam will cause problems for the registered candidates, as well as the authorities who are hosting the exam.
"The date of exam was already fixed 6 months in advance and a notice in this regard was placed on NBE website on 16.09.2022. Initially, when the cut-off date for completion of internship was 31% March 2023, more than 2 lakh students had already registered for exam and had not objected regarding the date of exam," the NBE has claimed in a document.
After representations from various State Government/Universities, the cut-off date of internship was extended to 11.08.2023 and surprisingly only 5000 additional applications were received which constitutes about 2% of the total candidates who arc going to take exam. Postponing the exam will create problem for 98% of the students who have been studying/preparing for NEET PG Exam and have represented to not to postpone the date of examination," the document added.
The ground mentioned for the request of postponement of examination as mentioned in the representation(s) is:
The date of completion of internship was extended to 11.08.2023 vide notice dated 07.02.2023 and they became eligible only after extension of the cut-off date for completion of internship. Therefore, he/they and similarly placed 18000 doctors will not get sufficient time for preparation of examination.
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"The petitions are listed as item 53. The bench is now hearing item number 10," LiveLaw has reported.
Medical aspirants and FAIMA delegates had protested at Jantar Mantar recently in Delhi, demanding postponement of NEET PG 2023.
“At present, the eligibility bar for interns is June 30 and the exam date is March 5. There is a huge gap between the counselling and the examination date. So, if the NEET PG can be postponed, candidates will be able to utilise this time to study and get the specialty of their choice. Otherwise, the time period from March to June will be a waste of time for candidates,” FAIMA Chief, Rohan Krishnan told indianexpress.com. Read full report here
The National Board of Examination (NBE) that conducts the screening test for post-graduate medical courses had to recently extend the internship cut-off date to August 11, making an additional 13,000 MBBS students from five states eligible for the 2023 examination. The NBE initially announced internship cut-off date of March 30, which was extended by the body in January to June 30, and then to August 11. Read more
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Several medical aspirants and FAIMA (Federation of All India Medical Association) delegates have been protesting for weeks demanding the postponement of the NEET PG 2023 exam.
The Supreme Court will today hear the petition for postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Post Graduate (NEET PG) 2023.