Shashi Tharoor writes JP Nadda on NEET-PG 2024: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has written a letter to Union Well being Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda expressing severe concern over the challenges confronted by NEET-PG candidates. The Congress MP has expressed his views on the difficulties confronted by NEET-PG candidates, together with journey and entry to examination facilities.
The Congress MP wrote within the letter that NEET-PG candidates should journey hundreds of kilometers to achieve the examination heart. Within the letter, Shashi Tharoor wrote that antagonistic climate circumstances, ticket availability issues and lack of inexpensive housing are additional growing the issues of the scholars.
Criticism over conducting exams in two shifts
Shashi Tharoor additionally criticized the choice to conduct the examination of various papers in two shifts. Together with this, he stated {that a} nationwide examination ought to ideally be carried out in a single shift in any respect locations to keep up uniformity and equity.
“If we’re to carry nationwide examinations, we should have the ability to authorise enough centres in every state, particularly for a manageable variety of candidates, to permit candidates to take the examination from centres which can be simply accessible from their place of training or residence,” the Congress MP wrote.
Tharoor stated, “The entire concept of a nationwide examination is futile until there is identical examination on the identical date in every single place throughout India. What’s additional disturbing to all of them (college students) is the information that the variety of cities the place the exams are to be held has been diminished significantly.”
the examination was cancelled
NEET-PG 2024, carried out by the Nationwide Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), was cancelled on June 22, a day earlier than it was to be held. After this, now the NEET-PG 2024 examinations are to be held on August 11. However within the meantime, a petition searching for postponement of the examination is to be heard within the Supreme Court docket on Friday, August 9. The petition claims that candidates have been allotted cities the place this can be very inconvenient for them to achieve and the place the rating must be normalized.
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