Why Did NEET PG 2024 Get Preponed? RTI Filed Before NMC
New Delhi: Seeking clarification on the reasons why the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG) 2024 examination got preponed, an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been filed before the National Medical Commission (NMC).
Activist Dr. Vivek Pandey filed the RTI application before the Apex Medical Commission after receiving requests from the aspirants who are confused about the rationale behind such a decision to prepone the exam by around 15 days.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the aspirants of the NEET PG 2024 examination were upset with the NMC notice dated 20.03.2024 through which the Commission preponed the NEET PG 2024 exam date from 7th July to 23rd June.
Taking to social media platforms, the aspirants have started questioning the logic behind such a decision taken by the authorities, while some of the users and experts have expressed their concern about the impact of preponement on the students preparing for the exam.
Referring to the notice dated 20.03.2024, Dr. Pandey mentioned in the RTI application, "Kindly provide the details of minute of the meeting held to preponed the NEET PG 2024 exam. please provide the information of suggestions given to preponed NEET PG 2024 exam."
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According to the screenshot of the RTI application, which Dr. Pandey shared on X (formerly Twitter), the RTI request was received on 24.03.2024. Referring to the issue, he mentioned in an X post, "We must know why exam is Pre-Poned, if result is coming late, counselling is late, then what is benefit of conducting exam 15 days before previous date ?"
The schedule for NEET PG 2024 has been changed a couple of times since last year. Earlier, releasing the tentative schedule of exams, NBE had last year announced that the NEET PG 2024 will tentatively be conducted on 3rd March 2024. Thereafter, media reports started speculating that the exam would be held in the first week of July.
Confirming such speculations, NBE, the authority in charge of conducting the exam then announced that NEET PG 2024 would be conducted on July 07, 2024, and the cut-off date for eligibility to appear in the NEET-PG 2024 shall be 15th August 2024.
However, recently while preponing the exam, the National Medical Commission (NMC) declared that the NEET PG 2024 exam would be held on June 23, 2024. On the cut-off date for eligibility to appear in the NEET PG 2024, the NMC stated, "It has also been decided that the cut off date for completion of internship to become eligible for NEET PG-2024 is 15th Aug 2024."
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