New Delhi:
The medical students on Sunday held a peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar seeking the postponement of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Post Graduate (NEET PG) 2022 that is scheduled to take place on May 21. This comes hours later submitting a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the deferment of the entrance exam.
During the protest, medical aspirants rang plates asking the Prime Minister to intervene into the matter.
While one of the posters on the site read, “Thali bajao, PM Modi se Guhar lagao (Ring plates and urge PM Modi)”, another poster was written with ‘Save the Covid warriors”.
“With this gathering, we are trying to convey our demand to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Union Health Minister and the National Medical Commission (NMC), and have them reconsider the postponement,” Dr Jitendra wrote a day earlier to the protest.
“We have taken the government’s permission for it. The principal objective is to demand for postponing the exam,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) had cleared that there will be no postponement of the NEET PG Exam 2022.
More than 15,000 NEET 2022 aspirants had submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi where they have appeled to the later to postpone NEET PG 2022.
In the memorandum, the aspirants said due to the ‘uncertainty of the counselling process’, nearly 50,000 medical have backed out to attempt the exam.
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