| Doctors urge Prez, PM to postpone NEET PG 2022 | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, Apr 22: Several doctors have urged President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET PG 2022) exam, citing insufficient gap to prepare for the May 21 NEET PG 2022 exam, as the NEET PG 2021 counselling is scheduled to be over only on May 3, and some States' counselling will start afterwards."As per the policy of National Medical Commission (NMC), there needs to be a sufficient gap between Counselling of one session and next examination. But this year the all-India counselling will be over by 3rd May,2022 and State counselling will start afterwards which might go till mid or may end. The examination is scheduled on 21st May, just a few days after completion of All India counselling. This stands unfair," they said in a letter to the President and the Prime Minister.
Stating that they were in a Catch-22 situation as far as appearing for the NEET PG 2022 exam is concerned, the doctors wrote, " We are in a dilemma if we should attend counselling or prepare for the exam because of this insufficient time gap. The counselling schedule was changed nearly 7 times by MCC this year , also the mop up round was cancelled both at all India and state level. How could we study amongst these uncertainties created by these exam bodies."
The letter also referred to the previous postponement order, where Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, had clearly directed NBE to give a 6-8 week gap between counselling and exam. The doctors requested the President, Prime Minister and other concerned authorities to postpone the medical entrance by at least two months. "I request you to kindly intervene in this at the earliest keeping in mind the life of thousands of doctors, whom you once called COVID WARRIORS," the letter concludes.
While senior Congress leaders Oommen Chandy and Srinivas BV took up their cause on the Twitter, Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya wrote a letter to Mandaviya, pointing out that more than 5,000, interns from Kerala, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand are ineligible to write the NEET PG due to a delay in completion of their internship owing to the Covid19 pandemic. |
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