NEET PG students see hope as counselling begins today
After having their fate hang in limbo for months, NEET PG students are finally breathing a sigh of relief. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Post-Graduate (NEET PG) 2022 counselling is finally set to begin today, September 15 and will end on November 14, 2022. Covid 19 has played a spiral effect in delaying not only exams, but also results and counselling schedules for the most important exams in India.
According to Dr Rafia Khan, Chief Advisor of the Federation of All India Medical
Association (FAIMA), the delay was also because there were new seats allotted to medical colleges, but they were not mapped out. Dr Khan further added that proper communication from the authorities to students helps calm some of the stress of waiting for crucial announcements.
A point agreed to by some of the students that FPJ spoke to. All affirmed that timely announcements on the counselling would have really helped because initially, the counselling was to begin in July and go up to September, but the dates swung back and forth. Finally, September 15 was announced as the official date earlier this month.
Meet Ghoina, a NEET PG aspirant from Gujarat, told FPJ, “Immediately after our results were out on June 1, I was offered a Class 2 job with the Gujarat government. Since the results came out too quickly, I didn’t take up the job thinking that counselling would start very soon too. However, it ended up getting delayed and I wasted some months.”
Another aspirant Rajnish Raj said, “There were rumours making the rounds of counselling dates. July, August, September... not being able to know what is correct led to confusion because bagging seats is also on our mind.”