NEET PG exam 2022: exam delayed by 6 to 8 weeks

The NEET-PG 2022 examinations have been postponed by 6 to 8 weeks, according to a recent decision issued by the Union Health Ministry. The exam had been scheduled for March 12, 2022, but was postponed.

Official Statement: 

The order says, "Keeping the current situation in view, the Union health ministry has taken the decision to postpone NEET PG 2022 by 6-8 weeks or more suitably."  

The decision was made after officials observed the current NEET PG exams 2022 condition, according to officials. In addition, it interferes with NEET PG 2021 counseling.

About the plea:

Six MBBS students have petitioned for the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET PG) test to be postponed until 2022. On January 25, the petitioners requested that the medical exam, which had been planned for March 12, be postponed. They asked for a postponement of the NEET PG 2022 hearing, which had been scheduled before the bench of justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Surya Kant. The plea was entered on January 25 and was set to be heard on February 7.

The condition stated in the information bulletin was contested at the Supreme Court. It states that the internship must be completed by May 31, 2022. Internships were delayed because final-year MBBS students were assigned to COVID duty to assist with the COVID-19 issue in India.

As a result, their internships were halted, and the graduates were no longer qualified to take the NEET PG 2022 exam. The petitioners, along with a large number of other candidates, say that their internships were postponed while they were on COVID duty and that none of them were informed that participating in front-line tasks could result in them being ineligible to take their post-graduate exam. In addition, the All India JEE-NEET Students Association, AIJNSA, sent a representation to the PMO, requesting that the exam be postponed.

According to one of the NEET PG regulations, a hospital's 30 beds must be assigned to one unit of PG students, and now two students from two academic sessions will have to be accommodated in the same facility, according to the appeal.

Due to the pandemic scenario, the tests were postponed until 2021. Many MBBS graduates have yet to complete their internship, and if they do not, they would be ineligible to take the admission exam this year.

On January 7, the Supreme Court cleared the door for the suspended NEET-PG 2021 counselling process to resume, citing an "urgent need" to resume the admission process based on the existing 27% OBC and 10% EWS reservations in the All India Quota seats.

"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, as per PTI.