Knit-UG to be held on 12th: Supreme Court refuses to postpone exams

It is inappropriate to interfere in the examination process at present: Supreme

For the first time this year, the Knit-UG exam will be conducted in 13 languages, including Punjabi and Malayalam

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) -UG exam to be held on September 12, saying it does not want to interfere in the process and rescheduling the exam would be considered too inappropriate.

A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said that if students wanted to sit for more than one examination, they would have to choose according to their priorities as it was not possible to take everyone's attention while setting the date of the examination.

A bench comprising Justice A M Khanwilkar, Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice CT Ravikumar told counsel Shoaib Alam, appearing for the petitioners, that the arguments you were making on behalf of the petitioners were not compatible with 99 per cent of the candidates. The entire system cannot be streamlined for one per cent candidates.

While the prosecutor said that 25,000 students of Std. In reply, the bench said that the number of such candidates is only one per cent and the date of the examination cannot be changed for them.