NEET-SS 2021- 'What Is The Hurry In Changing Pattern?Have Some Concern For Students', Supreme Court To NBE [LIVE UPDATES FROM HEARING]

Justice Chandrachud :Now 100% questions are from primary feeder category of General Medicine. YOU ARE COMPLETELY OVERLOOKING THE ENTIRE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESS of EXAM. Deferring the exam for 2 months will not do any good

Justice Chandrachud : Ms.Bhati, all this requires years of preparation. It’s not a matter of some months like CLAT. They have to study consistently. We know the concern about vacant seats. But they, the students are torch bearers. We have forgotten them in the entire process

Justice Chandrachud : Seats which are vacant are never in govt colleges. It’s always in Private. It appears that the entire haste is for filling the vacant seats

Justice Chandrachud : The interest of students is far higher than that of the institutions. Of course, private institutions have made investments. But we have to balance. Students are going to be the torchbearers of the future.

Justice Chandrachud : And all this have been done to ensure seats are not lying vacant? What is the break up between govt or private seats?

ASG Bhati (for Union) : I have to get instructions.

Justice Chandrachud : We have a surmise, that the seats in govt colleges are not lying vacant. It is a reasonable surmise.

ASG Bhati (for Union) : Over 12,000 students have registered for the exam.

Justice Chandrachud : Ms Bhati, that cannot be a yardstick. Do they have a choice? These 41 petitioners will also have to register for the exam. This is their career dream.

Justice Nagarathna : We can't decide the issue only on the basis of number of persons who have approached the court.

ASG Bhati : I bow down.

ASG Bhati : We did contemplate what fell from this Court last time to make the changes applicable from next year. But all experts, the Ministry, the NMC and NBE opined that to go back to the old system will derail the whole process. Questions papers have been system.

ASG Bhati : To say that the game had begun when the tentative schedule for all NBE exams for the second half of the year was announced is not a correct understanding of the situation.

Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati now making submissions for the Govt of India.:

The first submission made is that rules have been changed after the exams were notified. The first notice was not a notice for SS exam. It was a tentative notice for all NBE exams.

Bhushan : To hold the exam with only one feeder category is totally arbitrary and discriminatory and this has been done without consulting experts and following process under the Act.