SC rules in favour, TN may accept NEET
Pushpa Narayan
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Chennai:
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But Could Reserve 60% Seats For State Board
Minutes after the Supreme Court allowed the CBSE to announce the National Entrance-Cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) results, officials from the health department and directorate of medical education camping in New Delhi began poring through legal documents to see if they can reserve up to 60% of seats for students from the state board.With legal advisors telling state health officials, including health secretary J Radhakrishnan, that there is no possibility of complete exemption from NEET for Tamil Nadu, officials are looking at up to 60% reservation for state board students, at least in state-run colleges and state quota seats of self-financing colleges affiliated to the state medical university . “The admission will be completely based on NEET rank. After surrendering 15% for all-India quota, we want to reserve 60% of seats for state board students.Even among the state reservation, students will be picked based on NEET rank,“ said a senior official.
Tamil Nadu, which scrapped entrance examinations for professional courses a decade ago, has been opposing a common entrance examination for MBBSBDS admissions. The state health minister C Vijaya Bhaskar passed two bills in the assembly to exempt the state from NEET for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses even after the Supreme Court made NEET mandatory in April 2016.
Until last week, Vijaya Bhaskar said he was hopeful of getting the President's assent and officials were pinning their hopes on the cases against NEET filed in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court. On Monday , when the SC vacated the stay and said it will hear all cases related to NEET, the legal advisors told state officials that they have exhausted almost all options to get themselves exempted from NEET.
“Like in the case of PG co urses, we may have to use NEET rank list as the sole criterion for selection. But since the court and MCI had earlier said we can have our own reservation policy , legal experts say this should not be a problem,“ a senior medical education official said. “The school education department is already working on syllabus revision. Once there is a uniform syllabus, we will be able to proceed without any reservation for state board,“ he added.
Tamil Nadu, which scrapped entrance examinations for professional courses a decade ago, has been opposing a common entrance examination for MBBSBDS admissions. The state health minister C Vijaya Bhaskar passed two bills in the assembly to exempt the state from NEET for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses even after the Supreme Court made NEET mandatory in April 2016.
Until last week, Vijaya Bhaskar said he was hopeful of getting the President's assent and officials were pinning their hopes on the cases against NEET filed in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court. On Monday , when the SC vacated the stay and said it will hear all cases related to NEET, the legal advisors told state officials that they have exhausted almost all options to get themselves exempted from NEET.
“Like in the case of PG co urses, we may have to use NEET rank list as the sole criterion for selection. But since the court and MCI had earlier said we can have our own reservation policy , legal experts say this should not be a problem,“ a senior medical education official said. “The school education department is already working on syllabus revision. Once there is a uniform syllabus, we will be able to proceed without any reservation for state board,“ he added.
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