Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 4: The NEET-PG (National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test-Post Graduation) 2022 examination has been postponed by at least six to eight weeks by the Union health ministry.
“I am directed to say that lot of representations were being received from medical doctors regarding request to delay NEET-PG-2022 examination date i.e. 12.03.22 as published in Information Bulletin by NBE since it is clashing with the NEET PG 2021 counselling. Also, many of the interns would not be able to participate in the PG Counselling 2022 by the month of May/2022,” the director of health services wrote in an order.
“Keeping the above facts in view, the minister has taken the decision to postpone NEET PG 2022 by 6-8 weeks or suitably,” the order said.
On Friday, the Supreme Court was set to consider a request for the test to be postponed. On January 25, the plea was entered. Six MBBS students petitioned the Supreme Court because numerous requirements, including as obligatory internship, were not met by many applicants. According to them, many internships were halted due to their Covid obligations.
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 a “urgent need” to resume the admission process based on the existing 27% OBC and 10% EWS reservations in the All India Quota seats.
