New Delhi: The Centre on Friday moved Supreme Court raising objections against the order passed by the apex court on Thursday which cleared the decks for holding National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.
The plea, seeking modification in the order, was mentioned by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi before a bench of Justices AR Dave and AK Goel.
The AG suggested that the order passed by the apex court on Thursday had allowed holding of a two-phased NEET on May 1 and July 24 but there appeared to be some genuine difficulties and there is a need for change in the order.
He suggested that the first phase of NEET scheduled for May 1 should be scrapped and all the aspirants should be allowed to take the exams on July 24. Rohatgi further argued that the order propelled confusion and so a modification was required.
The bench agreed to give an urgent hearing to the matter and likely to be taken up later in the day by the same bench which had passed the order on Thursday.
The apex court had on Thursday cleared the decks for the holding of NEET for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, in two phases for the academic year 2016-17. Around 6.5 lakh candidates are likely to appear for the exam.
It had approved the schedule put before it by the Centre, CBSE and the Medical Council of India (MCI) for treating All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) fixed for May 1 as NEET-1.
It had said those who had not applied for AIPMT will be given the opportunity to appear in NEET-II on July 24 and the combined result would be declared on August 17 so that the admission process can be completed by September 30.
The order implied that all government colleges, deemed universities and private medical colleges would be covered under NEET and those examinations which have already taken place or slated to be conducted separately stand scrapped.
A bench comprising Justices AR Dave, Shiva Kirti Singh and AK Goel had pronounced the order on Thursday after rejecting the opposition for holding NEET by the states, including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Association of Karnataka Medical Colleges, besides minority institutions like CMC, Vellore which had contended that NEET cannot be imposed on them.
The apex court order had also revived the government's Decemeber 21, 2010 notification for holding a single common entrance test through NEET with a clarification that any challenge on the issue would directly come before it and no high court can interfere in it.
The court was of the view that since it has recalled its April 11 order, there was no hindrance in holding the single entrance test.
On April 11, the apex court had recalled its judgement scrapping a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS, BDS and PG courses in all medical colleges, delivered by then Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on the day of his retirement.
The petition on which the court passed the order on Thursday was filed by NGO Sankalp Charitable Trust. In its petition, the NGO had said that the Centre, MCI and CBSE were dilly-dallying in implementing the court's order on implementing the National Eligibility Entrance Test.
It had said that in view of April 11 judgement decks were cleared for holding of Common Entrance Examination and there is no impediment in having the test for admission to Medical Colleges for current academic year 2016-17.
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