The Delhi High Court will hear on Thursday a petition by a number of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) aspirants in search of to postpone the aggressive examination for the yr 2022. The NEET UG examination is scheduled to be held on July 17, 2022.
The petition has been filed by fifteen aspirants for undergraduate medical and dental programs from completely different states. It is listed for listening to Justice Sanjeev Narula. The petitioners talked about the matter earlier than a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad on Wednesday.
According to the petitioners NEET, JEE, and Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET), is “unorganised” and the identical has “caused immense mental trauma and harassment resulting in 16 reported suicides of young students leaving their families in a state of despair”. They search to reschedule the examination dates.
“Respondents scheduled National Level examinations CUET, NEET- UG, and JEE in the month of July 2022 having a time gap of 1 or 2 days, wherein the syllabus of all three examinations is completely different,” the petition mentioned.
“(Petitioners are) approaching this Hon’ble Court seeking postponement of NEET UG 2022 by 4-6 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.
The petition, filed by advocate Mamta Sharma, acknowledged that the board examination led to mid of June 2022 and the scholars have been pressured to organize for 3 national-level examinations with out getting adequate time to organize.
The petition additionally acknowledged that this yr, the notification for NEET (UG) was launched solely roughly simply 100 days earlier than the examination and the examination schedule is unreasonable and arbitrary.
“In spite of being aware about the genuine and legitimate grievances of the petitioners, respondents have failed to take a timely decision in respect of rescheduling NEET- UG 2022 and created a state of confusion among students by not releasing the admit card of the students till 11th of July 2022,” the petition mentioned.
“Aspirant students were under a legitimate belief that their concerns raised through various representations will be considered but to much shock and surprise, respondents maintaining their ignorant attitude have decided to conduct the NEET-UG 2022 examination at the scheduled date of 17.07.2022,” it additional added.
The petition additionally highlights that there’s a torrential flood scenario throughout the nation and lots of authorities have already postponed their respective examinations due to this fact the authorities within the current occasion can be directed to reschedule the NEET-UG 2022 examination to avoid wasting one treasured yr of training for aspirants.
With inputs from PTI.
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