NEET PG 2023: Extend Internship Deadline to July 31, ABVP Writes to Health Minister

NEET PG 2023 Internship Cut-Off Date: The members of the students union met with Union Health Minister and requested to reduce the gap between the NEET PG 2023 exam and counselling procedure.

NEET PG 2023 Internship Cut-Off Date: The delegation of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday wrote a letter to the Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya requesting an extension of the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET PG 2023) internship deadline. The student’s group also requested to extend the NEET PG 2023  internship eligibility date to July 31, 2023.

“ABVP has discussed with the union health minister about the extension of the deadline for the internship for the NEET-PG 2023 exam to July 31, 2023, reconsidering the proposed NEET-PG exam in March 2023, considering the problems related to the internship qualification of students of all states and demands have been made to re-open the application portal for NEET-PG 2023, etc,” ABVP in an official notification said.

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नीट-पीजी 2023 की इंटर्नशिप पात्रता को 30 जून से बढ़ाकर 31 जुलाई किया जाए: अभाविप।#NEETPG2023 pic.twitter.com/J2IBOEuLX0

— ABVP (@ABVPVoice) February 2, 2023

Reopen NEET PG Application Form, Reduce Gap Between Exam Date And Counselling: ABVP Request to Mansukh Mandaviya

Earlier on Thursday (February 2), members of the students union met with Union Health Minister and requested to reduce the gap between the NEET PG 2023 exam and counselling procedure. They also demanded that the NEET PG application form be reopened.

अभाविप प्रतिनिधिमंडल ने राष्ट्रीय मंत्री @virendraS03 के नेतृत्व में केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्री श्री @mansukhmandviya को #NEETPG2023 की परीक्षा तिथि एवं प्रवेश प्रक्रिया का अंतराल कम करने तथा इंटर्नशिप पूर्ण करने की समय सीमा 31 जुलाई 2023 तक बढ़ाए जाने के संदर्भ में ज्ञापन सौंपा। pic.twitter.com/C5JwmvF10B

— ABVP (@ABVPVoice) February 2, 2023

#NEETPG2023, #PostponeNEETPG2023 Trends on Twitter

After the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) announced the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET PG 2023) examination date on March 5, 2023, several students took to Twitter to express their concerns that they would be ineligible for the 2023 examinations owing to the internship cut-off dates. Earlier Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) had also sought an extension of the MBBS internship cut-off date, saying the current decision has far-reaching consequences and has left many students facing a bleak future. FORDA took to Twitter, “NEETPG bulletin drops bombshell: internship completion date set for March,31 ‘23. >50% of interns ineligible, their career at stake. States altogether are’nt eligible. Will lead to demands of postponement and last minute chaos. Urgent resolution needed.”

The doctors’ body has also written to Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, requesting a postponement of the cut-off date, claiming that interns in states such as Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan will be disqualified from taking the exam because their internships will end after the cut-off date. Aspirants started trending #NEETPG2023 on Twitter and demanded that to either postpone the NEET PG exam 2023 or extend the deadline for internship completion. For the past few days, thousands of students on Twitter have been requesting authorities to listen to their concerns and postpone the exam.

NBE Revises Internship Cut-Off Date to June 30

Following several requests from Indian Medical Association, student union bodies, several state authorities, and prospective candidates, NBE extended the March 31 internship deadline to June 30. The decision was made because a large number of students were not eligible to take the exam. “The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Govt. of India vide its email dated 13.01.2023 has revised the cut-off date for completion of internship for the purpose of eligibility for NEET-PG 2023 to 30th June 2023,” reads the official notification.

NBE NEET PG Application Correction Window

Presently, the NEET PG entrance exam 2023 is scheduled for March 5. The NBE will close the NEET PG 2023 application correction window today at natboard.edu.in. Medical aspirants who have already submitted their NEET PG application 2023 and want to make changes to the application form will be able to do so by visiting the official website — natboard.edu.in. To edit the details in NEET PG 2023 application form, candidates will have to log in with their email ID, date of birth, and password. NEET-PG 2023 is the eligibility-cum-ranking examination for admission to various MD/ MS/ PG Diploma courses of the 2023-24 admission session. For more details, check the official website.