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NEET alone from this year
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice AR Dave on Monday held that the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) would override all other examinations in the country for admissions into medical and dental colleges in the country, both private and government.
​New Delhi: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice AR Dave on Monday held that the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) would override all other examinations in the country for admissions into medical and dental colleges in the country, both private and government.
- NEET will be the common entrance test for all medical courses in country
- Decision came after complaints of malpractices in admission process
- States, private colleges had appealed for a modification of the order
"Only NEET shall enable students to get admissions to MBBS and BDS in the country," it ruled setting to rest not only speculation in this regard but also the results of the CETs conducted in various State Governments already. The States could go ahead and declare the results of the engineering entrance examinations alone now, according to the order.
All eligible candidates who could not appear in NEET-I and those who had appeared but have apprehension that they had not prepared well, be permitted to appear in NEET-II, subject to seeking an option from the said candidates to give up their candidature for NEET-I," the court observed
Refusing to modify the earlier order dated April 28, the bench disposed off petitions seeking the same. The bench said NEET would come into force from this year itself and all States would be bound by it.
The examination was neither detrimental to the interests of minorities nor to the interests of students of any State, it observed. The petitions were filed by the private medical colleges and also by some of the States seeking modification of order dated April 28 delivered by the SC.
The bench said, "prima facie, we do not find any infirmity in the NEET regulation on the ground that it affects the rights of the States or the private institutions.
Special provisions for reservation of any category are not subject matter of the NEET nor are rights of minority in any manner affected by NEET. NEET only provides for conducting entrance test for eligibility for admission to the MBBS/ BDS course. We thus, do not find any merit in the applications seeking modification of order of April 28, 2016".
It also dismissed the contention that some hardships were perceived to the students and said, "only other contention relates to perceived hardship to the students who have either applied for NEET-I but could not appear or who appeared but could not prepare fully thinking that the preparation was to be only for 15% of all India seats".
The bench then went on to provide a further opportunity to all the students, to those who have not appeared for the Phase I or those who had perceived difficulties in writing the phase I, to appear for the NEET-II now.
"To allay any such apprehension, we direct that all such eligible candidates who could not appear in NEET-I and those who had appeared but have apprehension that they had not prepared well, be permitted to appear in NEET-II, subject to seeking an option from the said candidates to give up their candidature for NEET-I," it obeserved.
As for the date of the conduct of the examination by the MCI, CBSE and the Union Government, the bench said, "it would be open to the respondents to reschedule the date of holding NEET-II, if necessary.
To this extent the earlier orders stand modified. We may also add here that to ensure total credibility of the examination to be held by the CBSE, the Oversight Committee appointed by this Court vide the aforesaid judgment dated May 2, shall also oversee the NEET-II examination to be conducted by the CBSE.”
In view of the above, it is also clarified that only NEET would enable students to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies. All the applications and writ petitions seeking modification of order passed on April 11 (2016) stood disposed of.
Monday’s judgement ends the discussion over single entrance exams which was raging in the country for a long time. Admittedly students who had not been used to competitive examinations and those who are not from the CBSE stream could face the heat for the time being.
There is yet another issue of whether the common examination would not benefit only those who studied in Hindi and English medium. Whether the CBSE, MCI and the Union Government would be able to conduct the examination in regional languages for the benefit of those has to be seen now.
