Supreme Court Refuses to Postpone NEET PG 2022

Posted on 10^th March, 2022

Any further postponement of NEET PG 2022 will have a cascading effect on the admission schedule fixed by the court in January 2016: SC

The Supreme Court has refused to postpone the NEET PG 2022 exam and dismissed the plea of the group of doctors who were urging to postpone the exam in various ways. They were requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, and the central government to postpone the NEET PG 2022 exam by a few weeks

The Supreme Court refused the plea by saying that it would create a cascading effect on the admission schedule which was fixed by the court in January 2016. This will not result in good for the efforts of the government trying to get the admission and education field on track which was affected for 2 years of Covid-19.

If the NEET PG Exam 2022 gets postponed again then it will affect the NEET PG 2023 exam which is scheduled for January 2023.

NEET PG Exam 2022 - Plea of Doctors in Supreme Court

Advocate Ashutosh Dubey and Abhishek Chauhan who had filed the plea of doctors to postpone the NEET PG Exam 2022 said, “The petitioners are the doctors who are doing their requisite internship with different hospitals across the country. The petitioners aspire to appear in NEET-PG examination 2022 to be held on May 21 for the purpose of choosing their career option as per their ranking, choice, and available options to them under different branches of medical science for Post-Graduation Courses”.

The points in the plea on behalf of the group of doctors were:

As the difference between the NEET PG 2022 exam date and counselling of 2021 is too short hence those candidates who have lower ranks will not get enough time to know about the admission.
There are around 10,000 interns who had served in the pandemic as Covid Warriors. There is a delay in their internship completion due to covid duties. Hence they will be ineligible for NEET PG due to delays in their final exams.

NEET PG Exam 2022 - Supreme Court’s Order

As per the orders of the Supreme Court, the postponement will create chaos and uncertainty in patient checkups and will create a deficiency of doctors in hospitals.
If the exam is postponed further, it will put over 2 lakh doctors to prejudice who have registered for the exam.
There is a large number of students on one side who will get affected if the exam gets postponed and also the patient care will also get affected which can not be ignored.
Because of the pandemic emergency, the NEET 2022-23 schedule had to be revised which was already delayed by 4 months.

So the new date for NEET PG 2022 is fixed as May 21st, while the results are expected on 20 June 2022. The admit cards for this exam will be released on 16th May 2022.