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SC to hear fresh plea on NEET today
The Supreme Court is all set to decide whether states could conduct their own entrance examination for MBBS and BDS courses on Tuesday.
New Delhi/Hyderabad: The Supreme Court is all set to decide whether states could conduct their own entrance examination for MBBS and BDS courses on Tuesday.
The Telangana and AP governments will take the stand that NEET should not be made applicable to them. Both the states to plead before the apex court to treat them as special case under Article 371 D and they may be allowed to make admissions through their pre-scheduled tests to MBBS and BDS courses.
AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari are hopeful that the apex court will consider their plea sympathetically and would take a favourable decision. Both the states will seek at least one year exemption as an alternative, they said.
A few states, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and a few private medical colleges have knocked the doors of the Chief Justice's court seeking a review of the decision on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination (NEET).
A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice T S Thakur, responded favourably to the plea of the senior counsels, including K K Venugopal and Gopal Subramanyam in this regard. They submitted to the bench that the admission tests (CETs) in these states were pre-scheduled and hence should be allowed.
Gopal Subramanyam representing Jammu and Kashmir said the entrance test in the state be allowed as the state had been granted Special Status. "Let these applications be heard tomorrow (on Tuesday) by the bench concerned," Justice Thakur said after hearing them when these fresh applications were moved here on Monday.
Senior Counsel Venugopal on behalf of Karnataka medical colleges pleaded that the local entrance tests should be allowed as all arrangements were in place for the same along with the NEET.Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu also made a similar plea.
Justice A R Dave, who recently reversed the earlier order on NEET and proclaimed that NEET would be on from this year, would be hearing the case on Tuesday along with his brother judges.
In fact, Dave had ruled in his order that any affected person or party could knock the doors of the apex court only to be heard as a fresh petitioner. The SC on April 29 said the entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses for 2016-17 will be held as per the schedule through the two-phased common entrance test NEET on May 1 and July 24.
