Can’t adopt NEET for MBBS,Vyas writes to Union Minister

Referring to the notification by the MCI on conducting NEET-UG,he said,“I would like to re-assert that NEET-UG should be conducted in Gujarati language also,along with English and Hindi,as you know approximately 85% students find it very difficult to find a place in the all-India merit.”

Vyas had written to Azad earlier also pointing out

Gujarat already had a

common entrance exam — GUJCET — conducted every year under the Gujarat Professional Medical Educational Colleges or Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixed of Fees) Act,2007.

“Through GUJCET,a

single window examination-cum-admission mechanism has been implemented in Gujarat for admission to

all medical,dental,Ayush (Ayurveda,Yoga and

other such branches),Physiotherapy and other paramedical courses. Since this is a single window mechanism,we are already implementing the Supreme Court guidelines in this regard and do not see any need for NEET,” Vyas wrote.

He had also pointed out that examinations for civil services are conducted in all regional languages and giving options of only English and Hindi languages would hamper the prospects of students from Gujarat as 85% of them come from Gujarati medium schools.