High Court dismisses appeals against NEET
According
to the bench, once the students had taken the NEET, the objective of
providing equal opportunities and a level playing field for everyone had
been established.
The bench said that the State government was aware that admissions shall be made only on the basis of NEET scores, as long as the assent of the President is not received to the NEET exemption Bills passed in the State Assembly.
Referring to the policy decision of the State government behind its rationale for providing the classification, the court said: “That objective stands accomplished already when all the students, drawn from State Board as well as other Boards, such as CBSE, etc., have appeared at the NEET examination held on May 7. In other words, equal opportunity to all the students across the board has been secured by their appearing at the NEET examination and testing their merit by a common standard/yardstick”.
Fall in standards
The bench dwelt on the lack of infrastructural facilities for students across the State. “Schools are not established particularly up to +2 stage in adequate numbers. Even where they are available, the standards have not been either monitored or updated,” the judges said.
The bench took critical note of the fall in the standards of students and asked the State government to address the issue.
Making a mention of the lack of infrastructural facilities, the judges observed that even where the facilities were available, “there was lack of supervision on the instructors, who were entrusted with the task of teaching 10 + 2 students in the Government schools. Most of the students, it looks like, are made to fend for themselves.”
The bench said that the State government was aware that admissions shall be made only on the basis of NEET scores, as long as the assent of the President is not received to the NEET exemption Bills passed in the State Assembly.
Referring to the policy decision of the State government behind its rationale for providing the classification, the court said: “That objective stands accomplished already when all the students, drawn from State Board as well as other Boards, such as CBSE, etc., have appeared at the NEET examination held on May 7. In other words, equal opportunity to all the students across the board has been secured by their appearing at the NEET examination and testing their merit by a common standard/yardstick”.
Fall in standards
The bench dwelt on the lack of infrastructural facilities for students across the State. “Schools are not established particularly up to +2 stage in adequate numbers. Even where they are available, the standards have not been either monitored or updated,” the judges said.
The bench took critical note of the fall in the standards of students and asked the State government to address the issue.
Making a mention of the lack of infrastructural facilities, the judges observed that even where the facilities were available, “there was lack of supervision on the instructors, who were entrusted with the task of teaching 10 + 2 students in the Government schools. Most of the students, it looks like, are made to fend for themselves.”
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