New Delhi: The Supreme Court refused to pass any general order to direct the medical universities to cancel or postpone the final year Post Graduate exams on the grounds that the examinee-doctors have been engaged in COVID-19 duty.
A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and MR Shah was hearing the plea.
“In the circumstances, we do not deem it appropriate to pass any orders, particularly in the absence of the Universities. There can be no question of any order on the National Medical Commission when the concerned universities have been given the liberty to decide the time and the method of examination taking into consideration the pandemic situation in their area,” the bench was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
As many as 29 doctors filed the plea in the apex court that sought directions to concerned authorities to waive the final Post Graduate Medical Examination (PGME). Their plea was on the ground that they did not get enough time to prepare for the examination due to their COVID duty.
“There can be no question of this Court passing any order directing the respondent authorities to waive examination or to promote and/or upgrade the doctors as Senior Residents or to the Post-Doctoral level without clearing the final postgraduate examination,” the bench said.
“We have interfered where it was possible like postponing by one month the INI CET examination conducted by AIIMS, New Delhi, where we have found that there was no justification in fixing the date for the examination without giving appropriate time to students to prepare,” the bench added.
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