Indian students from Gulf nations move SC seeking NEET-UG centres abroad
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
02.07.2020
New Delhi: Nearly 4,000 Indian students in Gulf countries, the majority from Kerala, moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking examination centres abroad to appear in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) scheduled for July 26 or its postponement till normalisation of the pandemic situation.
One of the parents, through advocates Pallavi Pratap and Haris Beeran, said most students had registered with Indian embassies in Qatar, Oman, the UAE and Saudi Arabia to travel to India on Vande Bharat mission flights and appear in the examination for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges. However, they could not be accommodated on the flights as priority was accorded to other categories of passengers stuck abroad.
In their appeal against a Kerala high court order refusing to interfere with NEET 2020 to be conducted by the National Testing Agency, petitioner Abdul Azeez said that the NTA had the capability and willingness to open examination centres in Gulf countries as they had been doing so for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions to IITs and NITs. However, the NTA said it would open examination centres abroad only if the Medical Council of India (MCI) approved the proposal.
“The MCI, in its communication dated May 21, informed that online test for NEET is not possible. During these exceptional circumstances, the MCI and the Union government need to be flexible so as to facilitate these students to sit for NEET,” the petitioner said.
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IN THE LURCH: The National Testing Agency said it would open NEET-UG examination centres abroad only if the Medical Council of India approved the proposal
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