NEET UG 2022: Candidates File PIL For Exam Postponement in Delhi HC, Exam to be Held on July 17

New Delhi: The NEET UG exam is going to be held in a few days on July 17. But medical aspirants have approached Delhi high court seeking exam postponement. The NEET UG aspirants demand the exam be postponed by 40-60 days and also an extra attempt.

NEET UG 2022 is scheduled to be held on July 17. Students from various states have filed a petition in the Delhi High Court for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Under Graduate exam 2022 (NEET-UG) deferment and also seeking an extra attempt.

The medical aspirants have been demanding NEET UG Exam Date postponement by at least 40 to 60 days, thus allowing them extra time for preparation. Students have also sent a plea to education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and have been running a campaign on social media platforms.

They are seeking exam postponement by arguing that the counselling process of NEET UG 2021 concluded only in March this year, leaving them with just three months window to revise the entire syllabus.

According to the appeal, submitted by advocate Mamta Sharma, the board exam finished in mid-June 2022, and students were compelled to study for three national-level examinations without adequate preparation time.

According to the petition, the respondents planned National Level Examinations CUET, NEET- UG, and JEE in the month of July 2022, with a time difference of 1 or 2 days, and the syllabus of all three examinations is entirely different.

"(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," the plea said.

According to the plea, NEET- UG is one of the most difficult examinations, and if it is held according to the current timetable, it would result in the irreparable loss of one year of education and substantial injustice to lakhs of students.

Sheelu Yadav, a NEET UG aspirant said about exam postponement, “We want only 30-40 days. It's not big-time which they can't give us. Plz, listen to us don't ignore us like we are the future and you destroy our future. Why. what we have done to you. plzz postponed neet ug lakhs of student want this everyone wants postponed neet.”

On July 12, the medical aspirants approached the Education Ministry with a memorandum to postpone NEET UG 2022. In the 19-page memorandum to the Ministry, the NEET aspirants have listed the reasons and hurdles they are facing at the moment.

The memorandum states that the preparation time has been less than 100 days since the release of the official NEET UG 2022 notification back on April 6, 2022. They also claimed that the notification is opposed to the usual pattern where aspirants are notified at least five months in advance from the date of the exam.

On the other hand, the NTA has been saying that there will be no change in schedule for any of the competitive exams scheduled between July and August 2022. NTA will be conducting CUET UG, NEET-UG and JEE-main during this period as scheduled.

NEET UG 2022 Postponement: Highlights

NEET UG 2022 is scheduled to take place on July 17, 2022.
Medical aspirants from various states filed petitions in Delhi HC for postponement.
They demand 40 to 60 days of postponement of the exam and also for an extra attempt.
The reason behind this is NEET UG 2021 counselling process ended in March this year. Hence they need extra time for preparation.

The CUET UG will be conducted between July 15 and August 10. The NEET UG is scheduled for July 17 and JEE Main from July 21 to July 30. While over 9.5 lakh aspirants have registered for the CUET, 18.72 lakh candidates have registered for the NEET-UG 2022.

Students also claim that those candidates planning to apply to other undergraduate courses apart from medical courses under NEET may not get enough time to focus on CUET and JEE.

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