Postpone INI-CET by 30 days at least, SC tells AIIMS

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a minimum 30-day postponement of the highly competitive INICET, scheduled for June 18, in which around 72,000 MBBS passouts were to compete for around 800 MD seats in all branches of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and other medical institutes of national importance.

In ordering AIIMS to postpone the Institute of National Importance Common Entrance Test (INI-CET), a bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and M R Shah cited Monday’s announcement by the PMO about the four-month postponement of NEET-PG examination for admissions to PG courses in government medical colleges.

It was done to boost availability of medical personnel for fighting the pandemic.

The bench said if the government thought it fit to postpone NEET-PG examination by four months, the decision of AIIMS to hold INI-CET on June 18 appeared arbitrary.