The Supreme Court dismissed a plea brought by a few students and declined to postpone the NEET-PG test planned for Sunday, stating that it could not imperil the careers of almost 2 lakh applicants.
The admission test for post-graduate medical degrees, which was originally scheduled for June 23, has already been postponed once as a precaution in the wake of the NEET-UG abnormalities.
The petitioners are requesting that the NEET-PG exam be postponed again, claiming that many applicants taking the test have been assigned testing centers in places that are difficult to access. They stated that the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), which administers the test, notified them of the city where they would have to appear for the exam on July 31.
Information about the exam centre, on the other hand, was given only on Thursday when the test was scheduled for Sunday, the students contended, adding that the exam was scheduled to be held in two sessions and the formula for normalisation of scores had not been revealed yet.
Hearing the petition on Friday, a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Manoj Misra and JB Pardiwala said it could not order the postponement of the exam just two days before it was supposed to be held.
“How can we postpone such an exam? Nowadays people just come asking to postpone the exam. It’s not a perfect world. We are not academic experts,” the court said.
Nothing that 2 lakh students were expected to appear for the exam, the bench said it was not inclined to ask for it to be rescheduled just because a few candidates wanted.
“There are 2 lakh students and 4 lakh parents who will be affected. We cannot put the careers of so many candidates at risk just because of these petitioners,” the bench remarked.
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Source: NDTV
