New Delhi: The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra while admitting a plea challenging the decision of the National Medical Commission (NMC) of not conducting NEET-Super Speciality examination (NEET –SS) in 2024 has sought responses from the Centre and others on the issue. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super Speciality (NEET-SS) is taken by doctors having post-graduate degrees like MD, MS, and DNB, or an equivalent qualification for admission to super-speciality courses. The plea was filed by 13 aspirants for super-speciality courses. As per news reports, NEET-SS is likely to be conducted in January 2025.
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While issuing notices to the Centre, Medical Counselling Committee and the NMC, the bench also gave liberty to petitioners Rahul Balwan and 12 others to make NBE (National Board of Examinations) a party to the petition and listed it for hearing on July 26. Referring to an earlier judgement, the petitioners said NEET-SS has to be held every year and, moreover, the time schedule has already been fixed by the top court for admission to super-speciality courses. The petitioner further said the decision to postpone the exam this year apparently stemmed from the fact that there were delayed admissions to medical courses earlier due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
