Medical entrance: Govt may seek review

The Health Ministry is seeking legal opinion on whether it can move for a review of the Supreme Courts decision to strike down the common medical entrance test. A day after the court ruled out the National Eligibility cum Entrance test (NEET),Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said,Naturally there is a legal recourse. There is no […]

The Health Ministry is seeking legal opinion on whether it can move for a review of the Supreme Courts decision to strike down the common medical entrance test.

A day after the court ruled out the National Eligibility cum Entrance test (NEET),Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said,Naturally there is a legal recourse. There is no other way. We have to see if we can go for the review or whatever else we are required to do.

The Supreme Court verdict came as a blow to the ministry which had gone all out to turn NEET the sole key to enter any medical institution in the country. Officials said they are studying the judgment. It is yet not clear if the apex court has opposed the principle of a common test or is it a mere technicality about who holds it. Once we have studied the judgment and consulted legal experts we will take a call on what to do, said an official,who said the ministry is extremely concerned about the plight of aspiring medical students who have to traverse the entire country with their parents sitting for entrance examinations.

Over seven lakh students took the NEET this year for the undergraduate courses and more than 90,000 took the NEET for PG courses. NEET has been dogged by controversies ever since the ministry tried having a common entrance test. States like Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have been opposed to it. Private universities and colleges,especially minority institutions,have been citing their autonomy and minority character as reasons for their opposition.

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