Post-merit-brawls, Delhi High court dictate NBE to restructure the PG medical examinations
Justice C Hari Shankar was hearing a petition filed by 17 doctors disputing the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Post-Graduate) (NEET-PG) 2019, and demanding a fresh merit list based on re-evaluation and revision.
The petitioners have also sought a direction to publish question papers – with answer keys and response sheet of Petitioners having appeared in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Post-Graduate) for admission to MD/ MS/ Post Graduate Diploma Courses 2019 - conducted by the National Board of Examination.
Advocate Neha Rathi argued that without the relevant documentation, there is no way to determine whether the examinees were evaluated correctly and that the 17 petitioners were merely representative of the thousands of candidates who allege that they have not been marked correctly.
These candidates also alleged that there is a discrepancy between the number of questions that they attempted and the number of questions on which they were eventually evaluated.
The petitioners initially sought a response from the NBE regarding these allegations, with some of them even filing RTI applications. But the NBE orally denied these RTI applications, citing non-disclosure clauses found in the brochure of NEET PG for admission to MD/MS/Post Graduate Diploma Courses 2019, which was issued in November 2018.
Justice Hari Shankar has instructed the NBE and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to prepare both the necessary documentation as well as their responses to the petition by the next hearing on Tuesday (March 19).