NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has on Monday decided to examine urgently a plea challenging a decision of the National Board of Examination (NBE) to conduct the NEET-PG exam in two shifts.
A bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih, said that the plea will be listed for hearing soon in a day or two.
The plea sought a direction from the top court to the NBE to conduct the exam in a single shift -- rather than conducting in two shifts -- to maintain "just, fair, reasonable and equitable" grounds of competition for all the candidates.
Petitioner Aditi and others challenged the conduct of NEET-PG exam in two shifts as the move has the potential to be unfair for the candidates due to varying difficulty levels between shifts.
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate courses (NEET-PG) 2025, is scheduled to be conducted on June 15, in two shifts on a computer-based platform and the results will be declared by July 15.
The court had earlier on May 5 sought a response from the NBE, National Medical Council (NMC), and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the said plea.
The court had on May 22 in another plea, pronounced a verdict issuing a slew of directions to stop seat-blocking in NEET-PG counselling and directed publication of raw scores, answer keys, and normalisation formulae of the exam.
