Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday wrote a letter to BJP President JP Nadda requesting his pressing motion over the problem of far-off examination centres within the NEET PG examinations, scheduled to be held on August 11.
He stated he’s writing the letter to attract Nadda’s consideration to the “woeful state of affairs through which practically 2 lakh NEET PG 2024 aspirants, their futures hanging in stability, discover themselves.”
The Thiruvananthapuram MP stated that the aspirants are being constrained to journey to faraway distances spanning 1000’s of kilometres.
“It seems that aspirants are nonetheless being constrained to journey faraway distances, some even spanning 1000’s of kilometres. The present climate – which has spawned vicious vagaries of nature throughout India – challenges of ticket availability, scarcity of inexpensive lodging and issues of security place these medical doctors in an untenable place,” Shashi Tharoor wrote.
“If we’re to have nationwide exams, we ought to have the ability to authorise sufficient centres in each state, particularly given the manageable variety of aspirants, permitting candidates to take the examination from centres simply accessible from their locations of training or residence,” the MP stated.
He additionally raised issues concerning the two-shift examination, with two completely different query papers within the two shifts.
“The entire thought of a nationwide examination is vitiated until it’s one take a look at on one date in every single place throughout India. Exacerbating all of this are the studies that the variety of cities, the place the exams are to be carried out, has been lowered considerably,” he added.
He additional urged JP Nadda to look into the problems and resolve them on the earliest.
In the meantime, a plea has been filed earlier than the Supreme Court docket in search of postponement of the NEET-PG examination stating that many candidates have been allotted cities that are extremely inconvenient for them to succeed in.
The plea stated the take a look at cities had been allotted on July 31 and the particular centres will probably be declared on August 8. An SC bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra agreed to listen to the plea on Friday.
A number of candidates have taken to social media to relate their ordeal and criticise the Nationwide Board of Examinations (NBE) for allegedly inflicting psychological harassment. The scholars are demanding the examination be carried out in a single shift with centres inside their dwelling states.
The Nationwide Eligibility-cum-Entrance Take a look at (NEET)-Postgraduate examination was initially purported to be held on June 23. It was postponed by the Union Well being Ministry as a precautionary measure within the wake of alleged irregularities in sure aggressive exams.
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