New Delhi: Following the NEET PG 2024 Test Centre Controversy, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor urged Union Health Minister J P Nadda to authorise enough exam centres in every state for the medical examination on August 11 so that students do not have to travel thousands of kilometers and will be able to avoid the hassle of arranging affordable and safe accommodation.
In a post on X(previously Twitter), Tharoor wrote,” My letter to @JPNadda formally requesting his urgent action on the #NeetPG_mismanagement.” In a letter to Nadda, the Congress leader also drew the minister’s attention to reports that the number of cities in which the tests are to be conducted has been reduced significantly. He said since the late evening of August 4, he has been deluged with representations from innumerable NEET-PG aspirants, adding, “I am convinced that there is, indeed, a major problem.”
“It appears that aspirants are still being constrained to travel faraway distances, some even spanning thousands of kilometres. The current weather which has spawned vicious vagaries of nature across India challenges of ticket availability, shortage of affordable accommodation and concerns of safety place these doctors in an untenable position. If we are to have national exams, we ought to be able to authorise enough centres in every state, especially given the manageable number of aspirants, allowing candidates to take the exam from centres easily accessible from their places of education or residence,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor wrote in the letter.
The member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala also stated there are serious concerns about the announced two-shift examination, with two different papers in two shifts and the so-called normalisation or standardisation of results. “There is also serious concern about the announced two-shift examination, with two different papers in two shifts and the so-called normalisation/standardisation of results. The whole idea of a national examination is vitiated unless it is one test on one date everywhere across India. Exacerbating all of this are the reports that the number of cities, where the tests are to be conducted, has been reduced significantly,” the letter further reads.
“In light of the foregoing, I will be grateful if your office could look into these issues and resolve them at your earliest convenience. For if the NEET-PG 2024 is allowed to go through as it is, it will severely imperil the future of our doctors,” he said in the letter.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) is all set to conduct the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-PG in two shifts across the country for 2,28,542 candidates at 416 examination centres in 170 cities. The exam will be conducted in two shifts and the scores of the candidates will be normalised. NEET-PG is an eligibility-cum-ranking examination prescribed as the single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG Diploma Courses as per Section 61(2) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 read with Chapter IV of Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023.
In a post on X(previously Twitter), Tharoor wrote,” My letter to @JPNadda formally requesting his urgent action on the #NeetPG_mismanagement.” In a letter to Nadda, the Congress leader also drew the minister’s attention to reports that the number of cities in which the tests are to be conducted has been reduced significantly. He said since the late evening of August 4, he has been deluged with representations from innumerable NEET-PG aspirants, adding, “I am convinced that there is, indeed, a major problem.”
“It appears that aspirants are still being constrained to travel faraway distances, some even spanning thousands of kilometres. The current weather which has spawned vicious vagaries of nature across India challenges of ticket availability, shortage of affordable accommodation and concerns of safety place these doctors in an untenable position. If we are to have national exams, we ought to be able to authorise enough centres in every state, especially given the manageable number of aspirants, allowing candidates to take the exam from centres easily accessible from their places of education or residence,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor wrote in the letter.
The member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala also stated there are serious concerns about the announced two-shift examination, with two different papers in two shifts and the so-called normalisation or standardisation of results. “There is also serious concern about the announced two-shift examination, with two different papers in two shifts and the so-called normalisation/standardisation of results. The whole idea of a national examination is vitiated unless it is one test on one date everywhere across India. Exacerbating all of this are the reports that the number of cities, where the tests are to be conducted, has been reduced significantly,” the letter further reads.
“In light of the foregoing, I will be grateful if your office could look into these issues and resolve them at your earliest convenience. For if the NEET-PG 2024 is allowed to go through as it is, it will severely imperil the future of our doctors,” he said in the letter.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) is all set to conduct the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-PG in two shifts across the country for 2,28,542 candidates at 416 examination centres in 170 cities. The exam will be conducted in two shifts and the scores of the candidates will be normalised. NEET-PG is an eligibility-cum-ranking examination prescribed as the single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG Diploma Courses as per Section 61(2) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 read with Chapter IV of Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023.