NEET-PG Exam: SC adjourns hearing for a week

The Supreme Court connected Tuesday deferred the proceeding connected a petition challenging the deficiency of transparency successful the behaviour of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-PG 2024.

A Bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan posted the substance for proceeding adjacent week aft an adjournment was sought connected the petitioner's behalf.

In their plea filed earlier the apex court, NEET-PG aspirants claimed that the instauration of 2 shifts, normalisation method, and alteration successful the tie-breaker criterion conscionable 3 days earlier the examination, affected the students adversely.

The petitioners contended that the NEET-PG accusation bulletin could beryllium amended astatine the whims and fancy of the authorities and nary rules oregon regulations existed governing the behaviour of examinations.

It challenged the National Board of Examinations' (NBE) determination to not disclose question papers, reply keys, oregon effect sheets of candidates for the exam this year.

The plea said that determination was a wide deficiency of transparency successful the behaviour of the introspection since nary of the documents allowed students to cheque their performance, adding that neither the question paper, nor the effect expanse filled successful by candidates, oregon an reply cardinal was supplied to the students, and simply a scorecard had been provided.

The petition, filed by advocator Parul Shukla, highlighted that dissimilar erstwhile years wherever the campaigner utilized to person their full people on with the fig of correctly attempted questions and the fig of incorrectly attempted questions, the results released connected August 23 this twelvemonth did not supply their full score.

"The method/manner successful which introspection nether the NEET PG 2024 is conducted by the respondents (authorities) is manifestly arbitrary and against the principles of transparency and fairness successful authorities enactment arsenic enshrined nether Article 14 of the Constitution of India," it added.

The plea said that NEET-PG had ne'er been held successful 2 shifts earlier and had ever remained a single-shift and single-day introspection to guarantee a azygous introspection modular and fairness of the nationalist test.

It highlighted a "serious patent defect successful the behaviour of the examination", requiring redressal successful bid to execute a clean, transparent and effectual strategy of introspection which gives the champion candidates.

"The NEET-PG is simply a multidisciplinary exam wherever one's fertile besides determines their quality to opt for the people and tract of their choice. Any flimsy saltation successful marks would barroom respective candidates from specialising successful their tract of interest," it added.

The petitioners besides moved an exertion seeking suspension of the ongoing NEET-PG counselling for admissions.