Supreme Court Refuses To Cancel, Delay Post Graduate Final Year Medical Exams

Post Graduate Medical Exams: The Supreme court noted that the National Medical Council (NMC) has already issued an advisory in April asking the universities in the country to take the COVID-19 situation into consideration while announcing the dates for final year examination.

The Supreme Court today refused to direct the medical universities to cancel or postpone the final year Post Graduate exams on the ground that the examinee-doctors have been engaged in COVID-19 duty. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and MR Shah said it cannot pass any general order to all the universities to not conduct or postpone the final year post graduate medical examination. The Supreme court noted that the National Medical Council (NMC) has already issued an advisory in April asking the universities in the country to take the COVID-19 situation into consideration while announcing the dates for final year examination. We have interfered where it was possible like postponing by one month the INI CET examination conducted by AIIMS, New Delhi, where we have found that there was no justification in fixing the date for the examination without giving appropriate time to students to prepare, the bench said.