Conflicting orders from Centre, State
Students aspiring to study in AYUSH stream (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) in 2017-18 are in a fix following confusion over the qualifying exam they will have take to get a seat.
Two conflicting directives — one from the Centre and the other from the State —may see aspirants sit for both, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and the Common Entrance Test (CET).
Earlier this year, the Central Council of Indian Medicine had sent letters to chief secretaries and health secretaries of all States that NEET would be one entrance test for AYUSH courses as well. However, the State government has now decided to conduct CET for these aspirants and plans to allot government quota seats in colleges.
Swapna S., an AYUSH seat aspirant, said: “Currently, I have enrolled for both NEET and CET, but I am worried that we may be caught in the same kind of confusion that medical students experienced last year.” R.K. Singh, Director of AYUSH, said the State government had communicated to the Centre that it [State government] had already notified the entrance exam for AYUSH courses for government quota seats. There were around 1,338 government and government quota seats in 78 colleges in the State last year. Private colleges last year had filled seats on the basis of Class XII marks.
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