SC to decide on March 15 as several students demand postponement of NEET-MDS 2024 exam

The Supreme Court is all set to hear the case regarding the postponement of the NEET-MDS 2024 Exam on March 15 (Friday) just three days before the exam date. The NEET-MDS 2024 Exam Date is March 18 (Monday) as of now. The current date of the NEET-MDS 2024 exam is March 18 (Monday). Several MDS students petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the decision not to reschedule the exam date because they believed it would prevent thousands of them from appearing in the most important exam of their professional career growth.

Several NEET-MDS aspirants have expressed their displeasure and have demanded an early hearing after the hearing date was announced for March 15, the same day when the MDS admit cards are likely to be released. The candidates are asking the court to hear the matter earlier because they are very confused about the hearing, which is scheduled just three days before the



exam.

According to several students, interns from various states have suffered a 7-9 month break in training due to COVID-19 and hence their internship completion dates have been extended to August. The authorities have set the current exam eligibility criteria as March 31 which according to them is unfair.

A group of applicants had previously requested the Supreme Court to move the NEET-MDS 2024 exam to July. The Supreme Court ordered the Centre to decide on the representation for the NEET-MDS 2024 Exam as soon as possible during its hearing on February 21. However, even after the court's directive, the government remained indecisive. The petition filed by the aspirants reads, "It is evident that the counselling has always commenced after the internship cut-off date. In 2023 too, the internship cut-off date was June 30, 2023 for NEET MDS and the tentative common counselling for NEET PG and NEET MDS was issued only in August, 2023."