The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea seeking postponement of the NEET-PG examination and said that it would not reschedule the exam, which was scheduled for August 11.
While hearing the case, the apex court bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said, “As a matter of principle, we will not reschedule the exam. There are two lakh students and four lakh parents who will weep over the weekend if we postpone it. We cannot put the careers of so many candidates in jeopardy. We do not know who is behind these petitions.”
The CJI further said, “We all live in an extremely diverse nation.”
The bench which also comprised of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that it cannot order postponement of the exam, just a few days before the exam is scheduled to be held.
“How can we postpone such an exam. Mr Sanjay Hegde, nowadays people just come asking to postpone the exam. It’s not a perfect world. We are not academic experts,” the bench stated.
Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that rescheduling the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET-PG) is needed because there is one exam in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The plea said many candidates have been allocated cities which are highly inconvenient for them to reach. It said the test cities were allotted on July 31 and the specific centres will be declared on August 8.
The exam was initially to be held on June 23. It was postponed by the Union Health Ministry as a “precautionary measure” in the wake of alleged irregularities in certain other competitive exams.
(with agency inputs)
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