HC orders notice on plea for more PG-NEET centres in TN

‘REPLY BY MARCH 8’

HC orders notice on plea for more PG-NEET centres in TN

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Chennai:06.03.2021 

An advocate has moved the Madras high court seeking direction to the central government to establish additional examination centres in Tamil Nadu for PG-NEET 2021.

Claiming that out of 255 centres established across the country only 28 are in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Veerapillai Ramesh said even such centres are chosen by candidates of other states, forcing Tamil Nadu students to opt for centres in other states.

Admitting the plea, a division bench of Justice R Subbiah and Justice Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup directed the union government and the National Board of Examination to file their reply by March 8.

According to the petitioner, the choice of the city for NEET-PG will depend on the availability of the test centres in any particular city and that the allotment shall be done on a first-come-first-served basis.

“I have learned from various sources that within few hours from the opening of the portal enabling the candidates to apply, the system responds to the effect that all the test centres in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry has been taken and that the said centres do not find a place in the list of centres while applying online,” he said.

The notice inviting applications was itself published on February 23 and on the same day by 3.00 pm all the centres in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry are said to be filled, he added. This has put the candidates from Tamil Nadu in a very precarious situation, where they have to necessarily opt for centres outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the petitioner said.