Supreme Court refuses to postpone GATE 2022

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to postpone the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Examination, 2022 (GATE 2022), after noting that the postponement of examination will create “chaos and uncertainty” in the lives of students, who have registered for the exam. A Bench, headed by Justice Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud, dismissed the pleas seeking direction for postponement of GATE 2022 examination, in view of third wave of Covid-19. “We don’t want to interfere with the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Exam, 2022 (GATE 2022),” the Court observed. “The plea for postponement of the GATE examination barely 48 hours before the scheduled date on February 5, 2022 is replete with a propensity for chaos and uncertainty in the lives of the students, who have registered for the examination,” the Top Court said in its order and refused to postpone the GATE 2022, which is scheduled to be held on February 5, 6, 12 and 13. There is no overarching reason that this court, in the exercise of its jurisdiction under Article 32 of the Constitution, should supplant the duties and functions of the regulatory authorities, who have taken a decision to hold the examination, added the Bench. UNI