NEET PG 2022 live updates: SC refuses to postpone NEET PG exam

SC said that any further extension will have cascading effect on the admission schedule fixed by Court in January 2016. As per this, NEET PG 2022 is delayed already by four months. The Centre submitted that NEET-PG 2023-24 has been fixed in January 2023 and the effort of government is to get back on track the admission schedule that was derailed by pandemic for last two years. 'Postponement of any exam is replete with serious consequences." says SC as it refuses to interfere with the NEET PG 2022 as it holds needs of patient care has to be paramount

The court accepted Centre's argument that already there is dearth of resident doctors in hospitals as this year there were 2 batches of PG doctors. Court felt that any relief will impact patient care and availability of doctors. It will also impact careers of 2.06 lakh doctors who have registered this year for Neet-PG 2022.

The Supreme Court refuses to postpone NEET PG 2022 exam. SC holds that any postponement will impact patient care and treatment.

Supreme Court is dictating order in the NEET PG case now.

Centre represented by ASG Aishwarya Bhati.  Centre says delay in holding exams will impact patient care and treatment. Help us to put things back on track, large number of sttudents are on other side. This will have cascading effect on other super specialty admissions. 

Postponing NEET PG exam will help all students with extra time to prepare, says Wilson.

Senior advocate Anand Grover also for petitioner says 50,000 people will get affected. Wilson says there is clash of dates. Like last year this year too there is clash between counseling of NEET PG 2021 and NEET PG 2022. It needs to be resolved says Wilson.

Centre tells SC 2.06 lakh doctors have registered for NEET PG this year.  Court says 2.06 lakh students, imagine they are all studying and have prepared for exams taking time out of their work. For them how can we stop the exam. They have not even registered for NEET 2022, there was no bar for you to register.....only that you thought you will get admission in 2021.

SC says for avoiding hardship for some how can we cause hardship to so many students who have prepared and ready for exams on may 21.

Senior advocate Rakesh Khanna appears for petitioner. Senior advocate P Wilson, Member of Parliament who recently wrote to the Government requesting postponement of NEET also present. 

The SC hearing on plea seeking postponement of  NEET PG exam scheduled to be conducted on May 21 begins. 

A bench of justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Justice Surya Kant will take up the plea for NEET PG postponement soon.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has also written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya requesting postponement of the NEET-PG exam 2022.

The plea seeks quashing of the notification dated Feb 4 issued by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences for holding NEET PG 2022 and or defer the scheduled date of the exam.

The plea seeking postponement of NEET PG exam has been filed through advocates Ashutosh Dubey and Abhishek Chauhan. 

The Supreme Court will soon hear a plea from a group of doctors who want the NEET PG exam to be postponed.