NEET Not Compulsory For Private Medical Colleges, States?

NEET Not Compulsory For Private Medical Colleges, States?

THE Supreme Court on Thursday allowed private medical colleges, deemed universities and state governments to conduct their own entrance examination for post-graduate medical courses for the academic year 2013-14. but restrained them from declaring the results.
An interim order passed by the apex court bench consisting of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice S S Nijjar and Justice J Chelameswar while hearing a bunch of petitions transferred from various High Courts including Andhra Pradesh and Madras, granted interim order in favour of private colleges and slate government. The court directed the listing of the matter on January 15 2013. Medical Council of India (MCI) had seni oui a notification stating thai it will conduct a common exam called National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET). As per the notification, private colleges would not be allowed to conduct the exam. Private medical colleges across the country had challenged the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to post-graduate courses in the academic year 2013-14. According to the MCI's regulations, all medical colleges' seats for post-graduate courses would be allotted from the national list and the state-wise merit lists prepared by it. Besides this, the regulation provided that 50 per cent of all the post-graduate courses seats would be Til led by the candidates selected by their state governments. All private colleges and universilies had challenged the validity of the MCI notification and sought to allow them lo conduct entrance examination. Several siate governments have opposed MCI's notification to conduct a single common entrance medical examination and filed petitions in Supreme Court against it. These private universities and state governments were conducting the entrance exams so far. MCI notification barred them from doing so. The petilions againsl MCI's notification had contested the validity of the medical body solely conducting the examination and had argued that it was an interference. MCI had conducted the MEET exam in November for the academic year 2012-13. Some private colleges and institutions had already conducted the examination before the notification came out.