Document Fragment View
Fragment Information
Showing contexts for: internship completion in Radhika Ashar And Ors vs Union Of India And Ors on 24 March, 2022Matching Fragments
7. The appellants, who could not complete their internship by 31.12.2021, filed a Writ Petition before this Court, being WP(C) 8687 of 2021, seeking extension of the date for completion of internship to 31.01.2022.
8. This court, vide its order dated 18.08.2021 passed in the above Writ Petition, directed the respondent no.1 to consider the petitioners‟ request for extension.
3. Further, numerous requests have been received from AIAPGET aspirants of different States, regarding extension of Cut-off date of completion of Internship towards determination of eligibility for appearing in AIAPGET-2021, as they are unable to complete internship on or before 31st October, 2021, due to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation.
6. The Ministry of Ayush has already considered this issue and extended the cut-off date upto 31.12.2021 & further extension of 20:17:10 LPA 44 of 2022 cut-off date of completion of internship will cause further delay in the admission and commencement of session. Further extension of cut-off date will become a never ending process as at any cut-off date some of students are found not fulfilling the criterion of Internship. It will also jeopardize the interest of many students who have completed their internship within time.
20:17:10 LPA 44 of 2022
13. The learned counsel for the appellants submits that due to Covid-19 pandemic, the entire schedule of AIAPGET - 2021 has been disturbed. The examination, which was earlier to be conducted on 07.06.2021, was eventually conducted on 18.09.2021. He submits that the declaration of results for BUMS/BAMS/BSMS/BHMS course(s) for various States was also delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in a delay in the students joining the compulsory rotating internship. He submits that as the counselling was to begin only from 17.01.2022, and was to continue till 25.03.2022, there was no impediment for the respondents to allow the students, who completed their internship and are able to produce their internship completion certificates at the time of counselling, to participate in such counselling.