NEET MDS 2024: Shashi Tharoor urges govt to expeditiously postpone exam

Shashi Tharoor has come in support of the medical students demanding NEET MDS Postpone 2024. He said that the examination should be deferred soon.

NEET MDS 2024 exam date latest news: Indian politician, Shashi Tharoor has said that he has been approached by many NEET MDS 2024 aspirants who are in great distress due to the current NEET MDS 2024 exam date, which makes scores of students ineligible.

"I have been approached by dozens of our bright medical aspirants who have been in great distress over the March 18 date of the NEET MDS exam, which renders thousands of MDS interns (of the COVID-afflicted 2018 batch) ineligible. Despite an SC directive asking the govt to examine the matter sympathetically, the exam is yet to be rescheduled. I strongly urge the govt to expeditiously postpone the exam to a later date, and safeguard the future of our aspiring doctors," his message reads on the X platform.

 

Many doctors' associations have written to the union health minister Mansukh Manadaviya to postpone the examination. After FORDA and AIMSA now National Medicos Organisation has also urged the health minister to postpone the examination.

National Medicos Organisation has also highlighted that the Supreme Court of India has already asked to bring parity in NEET MDS and NEET PG with respect to exam conduction and eligibility. Around 5,000 student's ineligible for NEET MDS due to delays in session as an effect of COVID-19 and providing duty. 

Despite the huge demand to postpone the examination, the NEET MDS 2024 exam is all set to be held on March 18. The application process ended on February 19, 2024.

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