New Delhi: Delhi High Court has recently dismissed a petition filed by applicants seeking admission to Military Nursing Service programmes, which challenged the NTA's notification that made qualifying for the NEET-UG test compulsory.
Justice Rekha Palli dismissed the argument that the test pattern was modified at the last minute due to the NTA's extension of time to apply for the NEET-UG exam and that applicants will have more than two months to study and sit for the exam.
Dismissing the petition the high court bench stated in the judgement,” I, therefore, find no infirmity in the decision of the respondents to include a mandatory eligibility condition of qualifying the NEET UG as per the criteria fixed by the NTA, as a pre-condition for admission to the B.Sc (nursing) in their institutes. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed without no orders as to costs."
The petitioners, who aspire to study B.Sc Nursing at MNS had approached the court to challenge the respondents' notification dated April 22, 2022, which informed prospective candidates that only aspirants who pass the NEET UG-2022 exam will be eligible for admission for the academic year 2022-23.
The petitioner claimed that for many years, admission to the B.Sc programmes in the respondents' institutes was based on a computer-based entrance test. In the said examination, the candidates were tested in General English, General Intelligence and Science with 50 marks being allotted for each of these three subjects. They also state that the NEET-UG exam pattern is entirely different from the computer-based examination.
Because the majority of applicants had been prepared for the computer-based test, they claimed that this last-minute change in the exam design had done injustice to them. Apart from the foregoing arguments, the petitioner said that the deadline for applying for NEET-UG 2022 was May 6, 2022, leaving students with very little time to apply and sit in the test.
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