HC notice to Centre on NEET cut-off for Indian med courses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:18.10.2019
The minimum NEET cut-off mark for admission to Indian medicine courses such as Siddha and Ayurveda should be reduced by the central government, says a petition filed in the Madras high court by an Erode-based student.
G Naveenbharathy claimed that due to high NEET cut-off mark, 230 seats under government quota and 278 seats under management quota remains vacant for the academic year 2019-20. Admitting the plea, Justice G Jayachandran on Thursday directed the Union government to file its reply by October 30.
According to the petitioner, NEET was made mandatory for admission to Indian medicine undergraduate courses and alternative medicine courses such as homeopathy from the academic year 2019-20. But due to the high NEET cut-off mark prescribed by the authorities, many eligible students, who had secured good marks in Class XII board exams, failed to achieve the cut-off resulting in huge vacancies in both government and management quota seats, he said.
Pointing out that when similar situation happened in admission to dental courses, the cut-off marks were reduced by the government, the petitioner wanted the court to direct the government to follow the same procedure for admission to Indian medicine courses also.
As the last date for admission to such courses was October 15, the petitioner asked the court to direct the ministry to extend the admission date till November 15 as done during the previous year.
Pointing out that cut-off marks for admission to dental courses were reduced, the plea wanted HC to direct the government to follow the same procedure for admission to Indian medicine courses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:18.10.2019
The minimum NEET cut-off mark for admission to Indian medicine courses such as Siddha and Ayurveda should be reduced by the central government, says a petition filed in the Madras high court by an Erode-based student.
G Naveenbharathy claimed that due to high NEET cut-off mark, 230 seats under government quota and 278 seats under management quota remains vacant for the academic year 2019-20. Admitting the plea, Justice G Jayachandran on Thursday directed the Union government to file its reply by October 30.
According to the petitioner, NEET was made mandatory for admission to Indian medicine undergraduate courses and alternative medicine courses such as homeopathy from the academic year 2019-20. But due to the high NEET cut-off mark prescribed by the authorities, many eligible students, who had secured good marks in Class XII board exams, failed to achieve the cut-off resulting in huge vacancies in both government and management quota seats, he said.
Pointing out that when similar situation happened in admission to dental courses, the cut-off marks were reduced by the government, the petitioner wanted the court to direct the government to follow the same procedure for admission to Indian medicine courses also.
As the last date for admission to such courses was October 15, the petitioner asked the court to direct the ministry to extend the admission date till November 15 as done during the previous year.
Pointing out that cut-off marks for admission to dental courses were reduced, the plea wanted HC to direct the government to follow the same procedure for admission to Indian medicine courses
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