The Supreme Court approves NEET in 2-phased common entrance examination
Posted on: 28/Apr/2016 4:39:43 PM
The Supreme Court has approved and ordered the new procedure for holding the National-Eligibility-cum-Entrance-Test (2016 - 2017).
The apex court insisted on conducting NEET this year itself.
The Supreme Court has approved the centre`s proposed schedule for NEET. MCI and CBSE will be conducting 1st phase on May 1
The Supreme Court earlier in the day had reserved its order on a plea seeking directions to Centre for holding single common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and PG courses through National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET).
However, the decision to hold the entrance exam through NEET was opposed by states including Tamil Nadu and Association of Karnataka Medical Colleges.
On April 11, the apex court had recalled its controversial judgement scrapping a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS, BDS and PG courses in all medical colleges, delivered by then Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on the day of his retirement.
The petitioner claimed that according to a research conducted by the NGO it was found that as many as 90 entrance examinations are being held by private and government authorities separately which resulted in shelling out lakhs of rupees in taking the examination.
The Centre and Medical Council of India (MCI) came out with a schedule:
All India PMT examination for May 1 would be treated as NEET-1 and the second phase would be treated NEET-2 which will be held on July 24 and combined result would be declared on August 17.
Counselling rounds would be held for 45 days between August 17 and September 30. The entire process would be completed by September 30.
An approximate number of 6.5 lakh students would attend the exams across the country.
