NEET 2022 NOT Postponed, Medical Entrance Exam To Be Held as per schedule on 17th July, order Delhi High Court

NEET 2022: As per the latest updates, NEET UG will be held as per the released schedule that is on 17th July 2022. J Narula dictates order. Order: There is absolutely no merit in the petition. NTA counsel has confirmed that more than 90% of these students have already downloaded the admit cards and will be appearing for exam. So, those who have not yet downloaded their NEET admit card 2022 can do so by visiting the official website. 

Updated as on 14th July 2022 at 15.26 PM

Stay tuned for live updates about NEET 2022 Postponement Plea Hearing Here.

NEET 2022: The court hearing has started. Justice Sanjeev Narula hears plea to postpone NEET. He has questioned why are they seeking postponement now. Court has questioned the rationale of filing a PIL and a plea. It also has questioned how can 15 students seek postponement of the examination which is being written by lakhs of students. Counsel raising concern over flood situation in the country and present how students would commute. 

Updated as on 14th July 2022 at 15.01 PM

NEET 2022: As per the recent updates, the NEET UG 2022 matter will be heard in the post-lunch session. Now, the bench will reassemble at 2:30 pm. The petitioners seek to set aside the date fixed for the entrance test and re-schedule it after four to six weeks. According to the plea, the date sheet for the medical, engineering and central university entrance exams has overlapping dates, all within the last two weeks of July.

Updated as on 14th July 2022 at 13.02 PM

NEET 2022: National Testing Agency (NTA) will be conducting the NEET UG exam on 17th July 2022. However, 15 students from different parts of the country have filed a petition to postpone NEET  UG exams by 4 to 6 weeks. The petition will be heard by Justice Sanjeev Narula. They cite the short gap between CUET, NEET & JEE & also floods in different parts of the country as reasons.

Updated as on 14th July 2022 at 11.53 AM

NEET 2022 Hearing Begins: As per the latest updates, the Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula will shortly start the hearing for plea to postpone NEET UG. The matter has been listed for urgent hearing. The petition has been filed by 15 students from different parts of the country - UP, Assam, Jharkhand, Telangana,  Kerala, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Maharashtra. The petition has been filed through Adv Mamta Sharma and seeks rescheduling of NEET UG exams by 4 to 6 weeks.

Updated as on 14th July 2022 at 11.03 AM

Due to floods there's no electricity in several parts
How many have downloaded admit cards no one knows

— Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai 🇮🇳 (@anubha1812) July 14, 2022

NEET 2022: Will Delhi High Court order postponement of NEET UG 2022 Exam? This is the question that will be answered by the Delhi HC today, as it is set to hear a plea regarding the same. Yesterday i.e., 13th July 2022, a petition was filed before the High Court demanding deferment of the medical entrance exam which is scheduled to be held on 17th July 2022. The court has agreed for an urgent hearing on the matter of NEET UG 2022 Postponement and it is scheduled to take place today. Delhi HC Bench headed by Justice Sanjeev Narula will be hearing the NEET 2022 postponement plea that has been filed by 15 aspirants from different parts of the country.

Matter filed in DHC, will mention tomorrow for listing. #NEETUGpostpone @anubha1812 @ThePradeepRawat @ActivistSukhpal.

Thanks to everyone for providing all relevant information quickly. Hopefully we get some relief.

— Mamta Sharma (@AdvMamtaSharma) July 12, 2022

What points are highlighted in NEET 2022 Postponement Plea?

As per the details shared in media reports, the petitioners appeared before a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad on Wednesday, seeking urgent hearing of their plea regarding NEET 2022 exam. As per the plea, the key demand of the petitioner is to “set aside the date fixed for the entrance test and re-schedule it after four to six weeks”. Sharing the reason for making such a demand, the petitioners have mentioned that the exam schedule of all major entrance exams including NEET, JEE, and Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET) is planned in an ‘unorganized’ manner. The plea also mentions that the schedule has ““caused immense mental trauma and harassment resulting in 16 reported suicides of young students leaving their families in a state of despair”.

Lack of Sufficient Time for NEET, JEE, CUET Exams

Advocate Mamta Sharma representing the petitioners highlighted the plight of the aspirants who have to appear for three key entrance exams in a short span of time. In the petition filed before the Delhi HC, Ms Sharma stated that with the CBSE Board Exam 2022 ending on 12th June, students were left with insufficient time to prepare for 3 key national-level exams i.e., JEE Main, NEET 2022 and CUET. She further added that the all three exams have been scheduled with merely 2-3 days gap in between, even as the syllabus for all the three exams remains vastly different. In response to this ‘unfortunate mismanagement’ by the exam authorities, the petitioners are seeking postponement of NEET UG 2022 by 4-6 weeks as compensatory action. The petition also stated that this year, the notification for NEET (UG) was released only approximately just 100 days before the exam and the examination schedule is unreasonable and arbitrary.

Will NEET 2022 get Postponed?

With the Delhi High Court agreeing to schedule an urgent hearing of the NEET UG 2022 postponement plea, it would be interesting to see if the court offers any legal remedy to the aspirants. However, NTA and Education Ministry have been very firm on their stand of conducting NEET 2022 exam on its scheduled date. Earlier, several students had held online and offline protests seeking postponement of NEET UG 2022 exam. But despite reaching out to PM Modi, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and senior officials of the NTA; NEET 2022 Exam date has remained unchanged. With NEET Admit Cards 2022 already issued and exam preparations in the last leg, it would be highly unlikely that NTA decides to postpone the exam. But they might be forced to do so, in case the Delhi High Court orders a stay or review of the exam dates today.

#NamoDelayNEETUG_PreventSuicides
Please postpone #neetug minimum 35 days@dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/P6IRGMEAoz

— Laxman Shinde (@LaxmanS45958251) July 10, 2022

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