The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any direction in a plea filed by candidates due to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) and seeking a postponement of the said exam from the National Board of Examination amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Central government sought time from Supreme Court to file a suitable reply in the plea seeking Rs 4 lakh relief or other amount. The Solicitor General said the proposal was being considered for Covid-19 deceased. Most death certificates don't specify Covid-19 as cause for death, the plea had said.
The Supreme Court was told that the Central government had not come up with a solution on providing rations to migrant workers who did not have ration cards. The case is from 2020 when migrant labourers were forced to walk to their villages after the nationwide lockdown without any rations.
The Supreme Court will today hear a suo motu petition, taking into account the “problems and miseries of migrant labourers," amid the Covid-19 pandemic.