In the meantime, a constitution bench of the top court on Monday upheld the Madhya Pradesh law providing for common entrance test for admission to medical courses both in government and private medical colleges.
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The Supreme Court today refused to change its order on holding a single entrance test for admissions to undergraduate medical and dental courses across the country. Around 6.5 lakh students appeared in the NEET exam.
Former Chief Justice of India, Justice R.M. Lodha, former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai and eminent doctor Shiv Sarin are the panel members.
However, those who have not applied for AIPMT will be given the opportunity to appear in round two, on 24 July.
By the April 28 order, which has been passed without giving a chance to hear the plight of students, thousands of students would be made to suffer as they would have to compete in a common entrance examination of which they have neither concept nor idea.
The NEET issue has taken the Parliament by the storm too. “Students are running against time”, he had said.
Mentioning that the syllabus of State Higher Secondary School Board is binding to more than 85 per cent schools in the State, the State Government has said, asking students to write NEET examination on the basis of the syllabus of the Central Board of Secondary Education would be unfair. “Some of them are also planning to move the SC. But our state government didn’t clarify its stand”, said a statement by the protesting students led by All India Democratic Students’ Organisation.
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The Supreme Court has adjourned the matter on the entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses till Thursday as the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI) have been asked to respond to the state governments’ plea to hold separate exams this year.
