Supreme Court to hear the plea on NEET PG 2022 postponement today, Feb 4

As per Supreme Court's website, the plea seeking the postponement of NEET PG 2022 has been listed for hearing today, on February 4.

The plea filed by six MBBS doctors in the Supreme Court seeking the deferment of NEET PG 2022 has been listed for hearing today, on February 4, as per the court's website.

NEET PG 2022 is scheduled to be conducted on March 12 but the candidates are seeking deferment of the examination date as the date is clashing with that of NEET PG 2021 counselling which started extremely late due to pandemic conditions and some pending court cases.

Earlier the students were demanding the postponement on social media platforms and later on a plea was filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the National Board Of Examinations (NBE) for its postponement until various requirements for the examination are met such as completion of the mandatory internship period, set forth in the PG Regulations.

The petition is seeking an extension of the deadline of completion of internship from May 31 and has also raised a challenge to the violation of NEET PG Regulations, 2000, while admitting candidates for academic sessions in one session as there is an "explicit cap on the number of PG admissions to be done per year per unit", said a lawyer of Dubey Law Chambers from which the students have filed the petition. 

"The petitioners (with 1500 candidates) have mentioned that they were in Covid duties in the year 2021 and therefore their internship was postponed. They have submitted that they are victims of circumstances and that they were not informed at any time that serving in Covid duties would tantamount to a situation where they will not be eligible to appear for the NEET-PG," the lawyer said.

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