'This Is Not A Perfect World': Top Quotes Of Supreme Court During NEET-PG 2024 Exam Postponement Hearing
(MENAFN- Live Mint) NEET PG Hearing 2024: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to postpone the NEET-PG examination, scheduled to be held on August 11. The Supreme Court was hearing a plea seeking postponement of the examination, which claimed that many NEET-PG 2024 candidates had been allotted test centres that were inconvenient for them to reach.
A bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra refused to entertain the petition seeking postponement of the NEET-PG 2024 examination.
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NEET PG Hearing 2024: What the Supreme Court said -"So many problems in the country, now to reschedule the PG Exam," CJI Chandrachud said as soon as the matter was taken. "It was rescheduled once," Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners, submitted, referring to the initial postponement of the exam from June 22.
-"How can we postpone such an exam? Mr Sanjay Hegde, nowadays people just come asking to postpone the exam," Bar and Bench quoted CJI Chandrachud .
-"We cannot devise a new education policy, and this is not a perfect world", Chandrachud added.
-When the bench expressed disinclination, Hegde said,“It seeks rescheduling because there is one exam in morning and one in afternoon and then it will be normalised.”
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-The SC bench pointed out that out of 2 lakh students who will be writing the examination, only 50 had sought a postponement.
-"As a matter of principle, we will not reschedule," said Justice Pardiwala while seeking statistics on the scheduled NEET-PG 2024 examination
-"There are 2 lakh students and 4 lakh parents who will weep over the weekend. We cannot put the careers of so many candidates at risk just because of these petitioners," said Justice Pardiwala.
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