Live! SC: NO common entrance exam for medical, dental seats
July 18, 2013 11:15
The Supreme Court has quashed the common entrance eligibility test for admission in medical colleges. The SC holds as ultra vires the notification for National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) by 2:1 verdict. Justice A R Dave differs with the verdict of CJI Altamas Kabir and Justice Vikramajit Sen. Justice Dave held that holding a single entrance test is legal.
This will decide the process for admissions into all medical and dental courses. In an interim order passed in May this year, the apex court had directed the Medical Council of India and all private colleges to start their admission process, as per the old guidelines where the MCI, state governments and private colleges conduct their separate exams.
Aspiring medicos have been arguing that a single NEET will make
the admission process simpler and more transparent.