Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Monday came out in full support of the Supreme Court order on single entrance test NEET for admissions to the medical and dental programmes across the country and requested the Centre to implement it at the earliest to check alleged irregularities in the enrollment process.
Jain said the judgment of the Supreme Court was major reform to improve medical education in the country and the order should not be circumvented by an Ordinance as demanded by one section.
In a tweet, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “Delhi Government favours NEET. Central Government, in collusion wid most State Governments, planning to kill NEET to favour mafia. ... Kudos to @SatyendarJain who singlehandedly opposed efforts to kill NEET in Central n State Health Ministers’ meet today.”
Jain presented the Delhi Government’s views on matter at a meeting of State Health Ministers convened by Union Health Minister JP Nadda to discuss the issue.
“There is now a reasonable apprehension that the Supreme Court judgement could be circumvented by way of an ordinance to do away with NEET for this academic year to begin with,” Jain said.
In the meeting, Jain strongly opposed any dilution of the Supreme Court judgement on the NEET issue and demanded that it should be implemented immediately.
“The Delhi Government agrees with the view that medical education in the country is allegedly a Rs20,000 crore industry marked with capitation fee and widespread corruption.
“Currently, the scenario is grim with businessmen and politicians without any medical background owning and managing private medical colleges in a system endemic with huge corruption, denying genuine meritorious students lacking financial resources an opportunity to pursue medical education,” Jain said.