The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) aspirants in search of to postpone the aggressive examination for the yr 2022 which is scheduled to be held on July 17,and said that it was completely a ‘misconceived’ plea with ‘no merit’. The excessive court docket talked about such form of petitions must be completely discouraged and added that because the petitioners have been college students so it was not going harsh on them, in any other case it will have imposed prices.
The excessive court docket made it clear that if such issues are filed sooner or later, it is not going to shrink back from imposing prices.
It questioned the petitioners’ counsel for approaching the court docket on the final second because the examination for the undergraduate medical and dental programs was scheduled on July 17 and famous that imprecise statements have been being made.
The petitioners had approached the court docket in search of to put aside the date fastened for the doorway take a look at and re-schedule it after 4 to 6 weeks on a number of grounds, together with that the schedule of the nationwide stage examinations, that’s, NEET, JEE, and Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET), is ‘unorganised’ and the identical has ’brought about immense psychological trauma and harassment leading to 16 reported suicides of younger college students leaving their households in a state of despair’.
The petition said that 12 grade board examination resulted in mid of June 2022 and the scholars have been compelled to arrange for 3 national-level examinations with out getting enough time to arrange.
During the listening to, the court docket enquired as to when the schedule for the examination was launched. To this, the petitioners’ counsel Mamta Sharma mentioned the schedule was introduced in April. “Why are you coming now? The schedule was announced in April, the exam is on July 17 and you are coming to court on July 14,” the court docket mentioned.
As the counsel responded that the admit playing cards weren’t issued earlier and so they have been making representations and approaching authorities, the court docket mentioned, “what do you expect at the fag end?” “How can 15 students decide whether the exam should be postponed or not? You were aware of all these things in April. These kinds of petitions should be totally discouraged. You cannot come at the end,” the choose, who was knowledgeable that 18.72 lakh college students will likely be showing within the examination, mentioned.
The petitioners’ counsel submitted that there’s a torrential flood state of affairs throughout the nation and plenty of authorities have already postponed their respective examinations subsequently the authorities within the current occasion may also be directed to reschedule the NEET-UG 2022 examination to save lots of one valuable yr of training for aspirants.
The court docket mentioned in India, its monsoon season presently and these conditions carry on occurring however it can’t be mentioned that one thing occurred in some districts so postpone the examination.
When the court docket looked for particulars of the scholars who’ve filed the petition, the counsel mentioned the aspirants didn’t disclose the entire particulars as they have been afraid that the authorities may take hostile motion in opposition to them.
To this, the court docket mentioned, “No student should feel scared. The courts are there for their help and for the help of citizens”.
While deciding the plea, the choose mentioned, “I don’t want to give any anxiety to other students so I will just give the operative portion of the order now. There is absolutely no merit in the petition. The writ petition is dismissed. The detailed order will be made available later”.
Advocate T Singhdev, showing for National Medical Commission, opposed the petition saying the examination will now be carried out on July 17 and the outcomes will take one other month, and thereafter, the counseling will start.
He mentioned the schedule should be compressed to carry it again on observe from 2023 as the whole lot was affected and delayed within the final two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. “If the exam is postponed, there are chances that it will spill over again to the next year,” he mentioned.
The counsel for National Testing Agency, which conducts the examination, contended that the petitioner aspirants knew effectively prematurely in regards to the examination, and out of 18 lakh college students, 90% of them have already downloaded the admit playing cards.
He mentioned there may be an business that seeks postponement of the examination yearly and this must be stopped.
The petition filed by fifteen aspirants for undergraduate medical and dental programs, who belong to totally different States, mentioned, “Respondents scheduled National Level examinations CUET, NEET- UG, and JEE in the month of July 2022 having a time gap of one or two days, wherein the syllabus of all three examinations is completely different.” “(Petitioners are) approaching this court seeking postponement of NEET-UG 2022 by four to six weeks to compensate the unfortunate mismanagement faced during the covid times and to allot appropriate time to students considering the peculiar circumstances as though examination held on time in 2021, the results were also declared on time but unfortunately due to the pendency of reservation policy issue before the Supreme Court counselling period got extended for six months,” it added.
With inputs from PTI.
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