In Brief
MBBS graduates who had participated in the NEET-PG 2021 counselling process challenged the National Board of Examinations' notification scheduling NEET-PG 2022 examination on 21 May 2022. They sought its postponement by eight weeks to avoid overlap with ongoing counselling. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition, holding that examination schedules are executive matters within the policy domain where courts will not interfere absent manifest arbitrariness. The paramount consideration was patient care: further postponement would worsen the existing shortage of resident doctors in hospitals, affecting medical services. The Court emphasized that balancing competing interests between different student cohorts and public welfare is an executive function, not a judicial one.
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