NEET PG 2021: SC issues notice on pregnant aspirants’ plea to change exam centre
Supreme Court today issued a notice on pregnant candidates’ plea for changing the NEET PG 2021 exam centre.
Anu Parthiban | August 31, 2021 | 04:25 PM IST
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today heard a plea filed by doctors seeking the court’s attention to the “grave and serious problems” faced by NEET PG 2021 aspirants due to the absence of option to change their NEET centre.
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“Issue notice only with respect to petitioners 1 and 2 who are in their seventh and eighth month of pregnancy respectively,” the court said, according to Live Law. The court also instructed to list the matter on Thursday as the first item on board.
A bench of Justices UU Lalit, Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath heard the plea today.
ORDER
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) August 31, 2021
Issue notice only wrt petitioner 1 & 2 who are in their 7th & 8th month of pregnancy respectively. Sr Adv Kavin Gulati requests for considering change of centres for them. List the matter on Thursday as first item on board.
Senior Advocate Kavin Gulati, appearing for the doctors said, “On 06.08.2021, they (National Board of Examination) said that the new candidates who had filled were allowed to chose the centres and not the ones who had filled the form and were eligible earlier.”
Stating travel difficulties amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, several NEET PG candidates, who were earlier allotted exam centres outside the state, have also requested NBE for changing the test centre.
As per the NEET PG 2021 latest news, the NBE is expected to soon release the NEET PG 2021 admit card at nbe.edu.in. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate will be on the revised exam date, September 11, 2021.
A total of 1,75,063 candidates have registered for the postgraduate medical entrance examination this year. NBE conducts NEET PG exam for granting admission to 12,690 Master of Surgery (MS), 24,306 Doctor of Medicine (MD), and 922 PG Diploma seats.
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