NEET PG: SC allows NMC Plea to Extend last date for PG Medical Admissions 2022-2023
New Delhi: Allowing an application filed by the National Medical Commission (NMC), the Supreme Court today gave its nod for extending the cut-off date for Postgraduate medical admissions for the academic year 2022-2023 until November 25, 2022.
Therefore, the schedule for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Postgraduate Examination (NEET-PG) has now changed for the seats belonging to All India Quota as well as Deemed & Central Universities and State quota.
NMC, the Apex medical education regulatory body approached the Apex court with its application for extending the cut-off date on the ground of the messed up academic calendar due to the pandemic.
In a previous order dating back to 2016, the Supreme Court had clarified that admissions cannot be made in post-graduate medical courses after May 31 of the concerned academic year.
On the other hand, referring to the lockdown and later restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Apex medical body NMC pointed out that the counselling for the academic year 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 could not be conducted within due time. Resultantly, the commencement of the concerned academic sessions had to be postponed.
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