Private and minority medical colleges failed to get any assurance from Supreme Court on Tuesday for conducting their separate entrance examination as the Court indicated that the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) must be allowed to go on this year.
Facing opposition from states of Goa, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and associations representing private medical colleges of various states on the implementation of NEET from this year, the bench decided to hear all applications on Thursday, hoping to get response from the Centre, CBSE and Medical Council of India.
The Karnataka private medical colleges which conduct an all-India examination for admission to 37 medical and dental colleges in the state argued that implementing NEET would be “tragic” for rural students who will be deprived of a chance to appear for entrance tests in their local language for subjects studied by them under the state board. The bench of Justices AR Dave, Shiva Kirti Singh and Adarsh K Goel said, “This much of English you must know to give the correct answer as scientific terms in Biology, Physics, Chemistry will be the same even in regional language.”