CBSE may declare NEET results by June 26 as SC
lifts Madras HC stay
Dhananjay Mahapatra
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New Delhi
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Supreme Court on Monday cleared the air of uncertainty over admissions to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges by lifting the stay on declaration of results to the National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test (NEET) imposed by the Madras high court.Nearly 12 lakh students have taken NEET for admission to medical colleges for the academic year 2017-18.
Immediately after the SC gave CBSE the go-ahead to complete preparations for declaration of NEET results, Board sources told TOI that it will require 15 days to release results of NEET-UG (undergraduate) for 2017-18. They said results could be declared by June 26.
NEET is conducted every year by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to fill nearly 30,000 MBBS and BDS (dental studies) seats in government and private medical colleges. The test has been subject to major litigation and many private colleges do not want to lose the right to admit a section of students through large “donations“ rather than a strictly followed merit list. The results were scheduled to be declared on June 8, but the Madras HC stayed the process on May 24 when it found question papers for NEET in English and Hindi were identical but those who took the test in vernacular languages answered different question papers. Additional solicitor general Maninder Singh, appearing for CBSE, explained to a vacation bench of Justices P C Pant and Deepak Gupta that though the question papers were different with the purpose of avoiding leakage in eight vernacular languages, the difficulty levels were the same. The exam was being conducted in vernacular languages for the first time on SC's orders. Since difficulty levels matched, there was no discrimination or advantage to any student based on language of exam.
What clinched the case for CBSE was Singh's argument that the time schedule for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges was fixed by the SC in ` Ashish Ranjan case' and had been strictly adhered to. The bench accepted the ASG's arguments, and ordered a stay on Madras HC's May 24 decision, which meant there was no impediment on CBSE to declare the results.
The ASG also requested the SC that since the time-frame for admissions to undergraduate courses in medical colleges had been fixed by the SC, it would be better if the apex court asked HCs not to interfere further with the declara tion of NEET results. Justices Pant and Gupta also accepted this request and posted the matter for further hearing in July , by which time the admissions process would have commenced.
As many as 9.13 lakh students took NEET in English, 1.2 lakh in Hindi, 47,853 in Gujarati, 34,417 in Bengali, 15,206 in Tamil, 3,810 in Assamese, 1,766 in Telugu, 978 in Marathi, 712 in Kannada and 452 in Oriya.
Immediately after the SC gave CBSE the go-ahead to complete preparations for declaration of NEET results, Board sources told TOI that it will require 15 days to release results of NEET-UG (undergraduate) for 2017-18. They said results could be declared by June 26.
NEET is conducted every year by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to fill nearly 30,000 MBBS and BDS (dental studies) seats in government and private medical colleges. The test has been subject to major litigation and many private colleges do not want to lose the right to admit a section of students through large “donations“ rather than a strictly followed merit list. The results were scheduled to be declared on June 8, but the Madras HC stayed the process on May 24 when it found question papers for NEET in English and Hindi were identical but those who took the test in vernacular languages answered different question papers. Additional solicitor general Maninder Singh, appearing for CBSE, explained to a vacation bench of Justices P C Pant and Deepak Gupta that though the question papers were different with the purpose of avoiding leakage in eight vernacular languages, the difficulty levels were the same. The exam was being conducted in vernacular languages for the first time on SC's orders. Since difficulty levels matched, there was no discrimination or advantage to any student based on language of exam.
What clinched the case for CBSE was Singh's argument that the time schedule for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges was fixed by the SC in ` Ashish Ranjan case' and had been strictly adhered to. The bench accepted the ASG's arguments, and ordered a stay on Madras HC's May 24 decision, which meant there was no impediment on CBSE to declare the results.
The ASG also requested the SC that since the time-frame for admissions to undergraduate courses in medical colleges had been fixed by the SC, it would be better if the apex court asked HCs not to interfere further with the declara tion of NEET results. Justices Pant and Gupta also accepted this request and posted the matter for further hearing in July , by which time the admissions process would have commenced.
As many as 9.13 lakh students took NEET in English, 1.2 lakh in Hindi, 47,853 in Gujarati, 34,417 in Bengali, 15,206 in Tamil, 3,810 in Assamese, 1,766 in Telugu, 978 in Marathi, 712 in Kannada and 452 in Oriya.
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