NEET UG 2024 counselling postponed: Counselling for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2024 has been postponed until further notice. Originally, the NEET UG all-India quota (AIQ) seat counselling was set to begin on July 6. 

The new date for counselling is yet to be announced. 

'Issue getting worse'

Meanwhile, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's central government over the NEET-UG controversy, claiming that the future of lakhs of youth is simply in their hands.

"The NEET-UG situation is getting worse by the day. The non-biological Prime Minister and his biological Education Minister continue to demonstrate their incompetence and insensitivity. The future of lakhs of our youth is simply unsafe in their hands," the Congress leader wrote on X.

Hearing on July 8

The Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that, in the absence of evidence of a large-scale breach of confidentiality in the NEET-UG 2024 examination, it would be impractical to void the entire exam.

The Ministry of Education stated that scrapping the NEET-UG exam, which was held on May 5, would "seriously jeopardise" the lakhs of honest candidates who attempted the question paper in 2024.

The Supreme Court, led by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, is set to hear several NEET UG 2024 petitions on July 8.

These petitions include allegations of a paper leak, requests to cancel the entire exam with a demand for re-conduct, and calls for an investigation into the National Testing Agency's (NTA) operations, among other issues.

- PTC NEWS

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