The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider pleas for postponing the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-PG 2023, scheduled to be held on March 5.
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Dipankar Datta considered the submission by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, who said that there is no date available in the near future with the Centre’s technology partner to conduct the exam.
She also pointed out that admit cards have been issued as per the schedule and the counselling may commence from July 15, 2023.
In its written response, the Centre said, “The schedule for holding NEET-PG 2023 on March 5, 2023, was notified on NBEMS website vide notice dated September 16, 2022, almost 6 months before the conduct of examination. The Examination is scheduled to be held in 277 cities at 902 test centres across the country”.
It also said 2,09,029 candidates have applied for the examination.
"Most of the candidates would have already arranged for their travel to test cities for March 5. Any postponement at this stage would bring unwanted inconvenience to all such candidates in the form of cancellation of their travel arrangement. The admit cards are scheduled to be issued i.e. on February 27, 2023,” it said.
It was also pointed out as many as 10 petitioners here had completed their internship last year or even before and cannot take a plea of lesser time to prepare.
The petitioners sought postponement of the examination, saying the counselling has to be conducted after August 11 since the cut-off date for the internship has been extended to that date.
(Published 27 February 2023, 13:45 IST)
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