Ayush admissions: Marks in Class 12 to be sole criterion

TN Won’t Take NEET Scores Into Account This Year

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:17.07.2018

Tamil Nadu has decided to exempt itself from NEET-2018 for admission to AYUSH courses and, instead, follow single window counselling for admission based on Class 12 marks alone this year.

The decision was taken after health minister C Vijaya Baskar and senior health officials met Chief Minister Edappadi L Palaniswami at the secretariat on Monday. Unlike the Medical Council of India (MCI), which amended the Medical Council of India Act to make NEET as the sole mode of admission, the Indian council sent mere notifications saying NEET was mandatory. No amendment was made to the Indian Council of Medical Act, officials said. “We will go by the conventional method admission based on the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006 for admissions this year,” said minister Vijaya Baskar.

The department of Indian medicine will start issuing prospectus for admission by the end of the week, said Indian Medicine commissioner Dr K Senthil Raj. The admission will be done by the selection committee attached to the directorate of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy based on merit in class we and 69% rule of reservation.

The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has a list of 32 colleges of Indian medicine but for this year 23 colleges have permission to admit students with 1,460 seats. This includes 390 seats in six government colleges – two in Siddha with 160 seats, and one each in homeopathy (50 seats), Ayurveda (60 seats), Unani (60 seats) and Yoga and Naturopathy (60 seats). Some private self-financing colleges that were charging up to ₹45,000 as fee have made representation to the government and the fee fixation committee seeking increase in fee structure.

HC summons banker who denied education loan

Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com

Chennai:17.07.2018

A State Bank of India SBI manager who had denied education loan to a deserving candidate on flimsy grounds is in trouble, as the Madras high court has directed him to appear in court in person on July 23 and explain RBI guidelines governing education loans.

The SBI Thalaignayiru branch manager should show the rules which stipulated that students with less than 60% of marks could not apply for the loan, said a division bench of Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh and Justice M Dhandapani, warning the manager that if he was unable to produce the suo motu contempt proceedings would be initiated against the banker. The student, A Deepike, has sought Rs 10 lakh as compensation from the bank and the manager for having rejected her loan application on the ground that her father was a loan defaulter. Pointing out that her father not a loan defaulter and that the bank officials made a factually incorrect statement to the court, the girl said they had damaged his reputation.

According to petitioner, she had completed higher secondary examination in 2016-2017 and joined B Sc (nursing) course in Karthikeyan College, Anthananpettai, Nagapattinam. Thereafter, she approached the bank seeking educational loan of Rs 3.4 lakh.

Though the application was accompanied by relevant documents, the bank rejected it on the ground that nursing course did not come under IBA Educational Loan Scheme and that her father was a defaulter.

Challenging the refusal, the petitioner approached the high court. Dismissing her plea, a single judge of the court held that the bank was right in rejecting her application on the ground that her father was a defaulter.

Aggrieved, the petitioner has moved the present appeal, clarifying that her father was not a loan defaulter.

CBSE moves SC against Madras HC order on NEET

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New Delhi:17.07.2018

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras high court order directing it to award compensatory marks to students who wrote NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) in Tamil.

Last week, the HC had ordered CBSE to grant 196 marks — four marks each for 49 “erroneous” questions — in the Tamil version of this year’s NEET and directed the board to revise the merit list. The NEET results were published in the first week of June and the counselling process is underway. In Tamil Nadu, about 1.07 lakh candidates took the test across 170 centres in 10 cities and any revision in the merit list would affect thousands of students who have already taken admission in various medical colleges.

Challenging the verdict, the CBSE contended that the HC erred in passing the order and urged the apex court to immediately stay its operation as it would alter the entire admission process in medical colleges. The petition was filed by advocate Tara Chandra Sharma and the board submitted that the most appropriate answer was decided by experts and marks were awarded based on that.

There were 180 questions with total marks of 720 in the NEET. The HC had said the students who took the exam for admission to medical and dental colleges in Tamil should be suitably compensated to provide a level playing ground.

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