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The Supreme Court on September 12 adjourned the hearing on transparency issue by two weeks. The top court was taking up all pending matters linked to the NEET PG 2025 transparency issue on Friday. The cases challenging the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) notification on releasing only question IDs instead of full papers of NEET PG 2025 will be heard together in the next hearing.
Originally slated for a hearing in October, the plea was taken up on September 4 first, and then is slated to be heard today. Petitioners argued that NBEMS had initially promised to release the complete set of questions with the answer key, but later issued a “corrective notice” restricting disclosure to only question IDs.
The bench, while hearing the plea on September 4, asked the petitioners: “Why do you think there is no transparency? Is it because you got less marks?” Observing that candidates often invoke Article 32 to challenge the process, the court remarked that such pleas sometimes exploit the system rather than improve it.
On August 21, NBEMS announced it would, for the first time, release the NEET PG answer key along with a response sheet and questions. However, the board later rolled back this decision, stating that only question IDs would be shared instead of the full set of questions.
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is preparing to announce the schedule for 50 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) counselling for Doctor of Medicine (MD), Master of Surgery (MS), and postgraduate diploma programmes under the 2025–26 academic session.
Doctors and aspirants argued that this format was “not transparent enough,” since providing only question IDs, answer keys, and responses against a master set would make the disclosure “non-verifiable” for most candidates.
Over 2.42 lakh candidates took NEET PG this year. The exam was conducted online in a single shift across 301 cities and in 1052 test centres. NEET PG was held on August 3 this year.
