Supreme Court refuses to interfere, NEET age cap to stay
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New Delhi: Candidates above 25 years of age from the general category and those above 30 years from the reserved category will not be able to appear in NEET this year as the Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the CBSE’s decision to fix the upper age limit for the entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses.
A batch of ten students from different states challenged the validity of CBSE’s decision to fix the upper age limit, contending that there is no age restriction for appearing at entrance examinations of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER).
Advocate Amit Kumar, appearing for the students, contended that the decision was illegal and arbitrary and pleaded the court to pave the way for the petitioners to take NEET (National Eligibility and Entrance Test). “In almost all developed countries such as the USA, Canada, UK and most of European Union, Australia, there is no upper-age limit for studying medicine if the student is otherwise competent to undertake the courses. Hence, there is no rationale as to why a candidate above the age of 25 years is not competent to take medicine course in India,” the petition said.
The students also said the apex court had recently stayed Bar Council of India regulations for prescribing maximum age-limit for taking admission to law courses to 20 years (for integrated course) and 30 years (for 3-year course) on the ground that there was no rationale behind fixing the age limit.
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao, however, refused to entertain the petition.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Candidates above 25 years of age from the general category and those above 30 years from the reserved category will not be able to appear in NEET this year as the Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the CBSE’s decision to fix the upper age limit for the entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses.
A batch of ten students from different states challenged the validity of CBSE’s decision to fix the upper age limit, contending that there is no age restriction for appearing at entrance examinations of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER).
Advocate Amit Kumar, appearing for the students, contended that the decision was illegal and arbitrary and pleaded the court to pave the way for the petitioners to take NEET (National Eligibility and Entrance Test). “In almost all developed countries such as the USA, Canada, UK and most of European Union, Australia, there is no upper-age limit for studying medicine if the student is otherwise competent to undertake the courses. Hence, there is no rationale as to why a candidate above the age of 25 years is not competent to take medicine course in India,” the petition said.
The students also said the apex court had recently stayed Bar Council of India regulations for prescribing maximum age-limit for taking admission to law courses to 20 years (for integrated course) and 30 years (for 3-year course) on the ground that there was no rationale behind fixing the age limit.
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao, however, refused to entertain the petition.
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