The Supreme Court has asked all the states and Union Territories to declare 10+2 examination results by June 10 every year to allow the students to have enough time to compete for the entrance examinations for professional courses.The direction, which is god-sent for lakhs of students, was passed by a bench comprising Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari and Justice Tarun Chatterjee on a writ petition filed by two students.The bench also asked the concerned education boards to supply the marksheet to the students by June 15. ‘‘Having regard to the utter chaos and confusion mainly on account of non-adherence of the time schedule, we permitted parties to file suggestions so that directions could be issued to streamline admissions from next year,’’ the bench observed. Any frustration and feeling of injustice at an impressionable age at which the students compete in all-India competitions is not desirable, the bench felt. The court gave a 15-point guideline to streamline the admissions into medical and other professional colleges. The bench also asked the education boards to strictly adhere to the time schedule for admissions by completing counselling in time and said there was a ‘‘complete no-no’’ to mid-stream admissions, admissions in excess of the total seats or carrying forward unfilled seats to the next academic year. The bench asked the states to conclude the first round of counselling for government medical colleges by July 25 every year and asked the Chief Secretaries to inform the Directorate General of Health Services about the vacancy position for the 15 per cent all India quota seats by July 26. It also passed a direction on the recommendations of the Medical Council of India that if any private medical college exceeds admissions to the management quota seats in one year, the number of seats for the next academic year would stand reduced by the number of excess admissions made the previous year. A significant aspect of today’s ruling is that the merit determined by competitive examination shall not be tinkered with by making a provision like grant of marks by mode of interview or any other mode.As per the detailed scheduled laid down, entrance examination for first year MBBS/BDS shall commence in May. The results for the same shall be announced by June 5. First round of counseling shall be over by July 17 for the state quota and between June 20-29 for the all-India quota. The last date for joining the allotted college under all-India quota is July 18 and under state quota is July 29. Second round of counseling or allotment of seats from waiting list for all-India quota will be from August 1 to August 8. For the state quota, it will be from August 25 to August 28.
