New Delhi: The NEET PG 2025 will be held on August 3, 2025. The Supreme Court has given its approval, considering the application filed by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) seeking to postpone the exam to the proposed date. 

This development follows a recent directive from the Court mandating that the exam be conducted in a single shift to ensure fairness and transparency. In response, NBEMS proposed August 3, 2025, as the new date for the examination and sought an urgent hearing on the matter.

Today, the apex court bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Augustine George Masih allowed the application filed by the NBE for extension of time to conduct the NEET PG 2025 exam till August 3, 2025, as per a recent report by LiveLaw. During the hearing, the bench asked the NBE why the exam body needed time till August 3. On this, the counsel for the NBE explained that the exam was initially proposed to be held in 450 centres with over 2.5 lakh  candidates. Since the Court has directed holding the exam in one shift, the number of centres will have to be doubled. 

The counsel mentioned that it will take time to identify the centres and to ensure security arrangements. After that, the candidates need to be informed of the centres so that they can select. He said that this was a time-consuming process. Noting the submission, the bench questioned why two months were needed for this exercise. "You want time till August 3? Why so much time?," Justice Mishra asked."You haven't started the process even. The order was passed on May 30. What have you done after that? This is delaying. Why you need two months?" Justice Masih asked.

The NBE's counsel referred to the letter sent by its technology partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), according to which the exam can be held only on August 3.Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, for the Union Government, also weighed in on this submission, saying that this decision to hold the exam on August 3 was taken after several rounds of high-level meetings.