Apex court declines order on national medical entrance test
Saturday December 17, 2011 03:38:07 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Friday declined to pass an order on the central government's
plea seeking amendment of the Medical Council of India's December
2010 notification to hold a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test
(NEET) for undergraduate medical courses from academic year
2013-14 instead of 2012-13.
Apparently not pleased with the latest position of the central
government, a bench of Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice C.K. Prasad
said: "We don't want to be party to any such decision. First you
notify the rules for common entrance tests and then you don't want
to implement it."
As Additional Solicitor General Harin Rawal and MCI's senior
counsel Amarandra Sharan sought more time to switch to a common
entrance test, Justice Dattu said: "It is for you to conduct the
NEET or not conduct it, it is not for us."
"Orders are passed at your convenience. Draft regulations had
already been filed. Now you say you will not do it in 2012-13.
This court will not be a party to the postponement."
While allowing the government to take any executive action it
wanted to take, the court said: "You do whatever you want, we will
not be party to it."
The court's response came when Rawal drew the court's attention to
the divergent positions taken by several state governments for
agreeing to participate in NEET for under graduate medical course
involving MBBS and BDS.
The additional solicitor general withdrew the central government's
application after the court made it candidly clear that it was not
going to pass any order.
Despite the rebuke by the Court, it was evident that central
government would delay the holding of NEET for MBBS and BDS
courses by academic year 2013-14.
Its application said that the chief ministers of Maharashtra,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Assam have sought to be exempted
from the NEET for 2012 as the students of their states would
require some more time to switch over to the new system and get
fully acquinted with the syllabus prescribed by the MCI.
The court was told that Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa has shown
readiness for the NEET from the academic year 2013-14 where as
Andhra Pradesh is inclined to join the NEET but has sought
exemption for two years.
Kerala, the application said, has shown its willingness to join
NEET with a rider that "all its reservation policies in admission
to medical courses may be allowed to be followed."
On the other hand, Assam has expressed reservation in respect of
the minimum eligibility marks as provided under the NEET and said
that it should be "allowed to add grace marks in order to ensure
that adequate number of students from the state are selected for
seats earmarked for the state in medical colleges".
However, West Bengal has expressed preference to continue with a
joint entrance examination board for all the colleges in the
state, but would be ready to join the NEET for undergraduate
medical courses if it was assured that Bengali language would be
one of the media for the examination.
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