Due to the COVID pandemic and requests to defer it, the NEET-PG 2021 was severely delayed. The counselling for the last session started only in January this year and is yet to be wrapped up
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May 12, 2022 17:29:45 IST
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The Indian Medical Association has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to delay the NEET-PG exam for the year 2022, which is scheduled for 21 May. The IMA’s letter has come in the wake of several students asking the exams to be deferred by six to ten weeks.
The examination was already deferred once from 12 March to the current date.
“As a result of the delayed counselling schedule, NEET PG 2022 was deferred … so that the candidates could appear for the stray vacancy round of NEET-PG 2021 and can still have plenty of time for preparation and re-appearance for the next NEET-PG 2022 exam if they fail to secure a seat this year… The difference between NEET PG 2022 exam date and completion of 2021 counselling is too short for the aspirant to prepare and appear for an extremely difficult exam like NEET-PG,” IMA said in their letter.