Supreme Court dismisses petitions seeking to postpone NEET PG 2023 exam scheduled on March 5

Case No 53 :- NEET PG 2023

Case Hearing Started...

Whole Conversation During Court Session is below.

° Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that out of the over 2 lakh candidates who have registered for NEET-PG...nearly 1.3 lakh students are those who completed their graduation in previous years and who could not make it through PG in the previous terms.

° Justice Bhat: What you are saying is that they should not have postponed the internship? How many time have they postponed the date in the past? 

° GS: They did last year also. 

          The previous practice in the past is that the gap between the internship deadline and the exam is never more than two months.

         In pg L of the SLP there is a table which shows the date of exam and date of counselling. In all there is just 2 months gap. This time it is almost 5 months gap. 

         

° Justice Bhat: Can you make the request for postponement. If you have not then you were ready to take the exam. So nothing has changed for you. 

       When I asked you wanted postponement, you said you did not want. Some of them you represent were content with the timeline as it was. 

° GS: I had to be content. I had no option. 

° Justice Bhat: When will your internship end. 

° GS: For those I represent it is May, June, July

          2 lakh odd has registered for the exam. Your lordships were concerned who could have just completed the internship. 

° Justice Bhat: That is not what we said..

                            So that pattern is those who complete that year is sizeable but may not be majority. Last year the extension of internship was not that long. 

                            Today what is happening is that if you pull the clothe this side something is happening on the other side. How do we balance.

°  ASG, Aishwarya Bhati: Kindly see these dates that I have given. The date was announced six months back. Everyone who applied in the first window is 2 lakh 3 thousand. 

            Admit card has been issued today as scheduled. We have made chart of 17 petitioners before your lordship. 10 petitioners had completed internship last year. 

° Justice Bhat: We will not look at that. We will treat this as a class (action).

° ASG : We want to start counselling from 15.07.2022 without waiting for the August date. The rest would  be allowed to participate provisionally and would be considered on a case to case basis.

            There is no available date in near future with our technology partner. We are trying the set the clock after the two years of pandemic

            In the first window, nearly two lakh three thousand students applied. Only six thousand students applied after the internship deadline was extended. So, the demand is only by a minority.

° Justice Bhat: We have only one hard number which is 5370 which is the fresh numbers. 

° GS: I have only one suggestion. They said they will start counselling from 15.07.2023. But it does not have sense for those who finish later. 

° Justice Bhat: He is provisionally part of the counselling. 

                           We will do the best we can in the circumstances...Let’s leave it at that. 

° Sr Counsel for petitioners: A lot of candidates will still not have the eligibility to come for their choice of subjects. 

° Justice Bhat: There is nothing in the world to say that they cannot reapply. 

° Sr Counsel: This problem started with NEET. Previously States had their own process

° Justice Bhat: All this is a part of the evolutionary process. 

                          We are not entertaining the petition. 

° Counsel: I am representing the aggrieved who were before the Telangana High Court. 

Bench: We are not entertaining the petition. 

Updating.....

Supreme Court dismisses petitions seeking to postpone NEET PG 2023 exam scheduled on March 5.

Court refuses to entertain the petitions seeking postponement.