The ordinance doesn’t give any relief to the private medical colleges.
The ordinance doesn’t give any relief to the private medical colleges.
After days of speculation the government on Tuesday notified the ordinance exempting state government medical colleges from the ambit of the Supreme Court-ordered National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for a year. The decks were cleared Tuesday morning after the President gave his assent for the promulgation of the ordinance that proposed amendments to the Indian Medical Council Act of 1956 and the Dentists Act of 1948 before he left for China.
The President had earlier raised some doubts on the “need” and “urgency” of the ordinance and had summoned Union health minister J.P. Nadda to explain the rationale behind the ordinance. A series of meetings between health ministry officials and Rashtrapati Bhavan officials were held before the President gave his assent.
The states can this year either conduct their own exam or be part of NEET to fill 85 per cent of the undergraduate (UG) medical and dental seats; 15 per cent of the remaining seats will be filled through the NEET route by all-India counselling. The ordinance doesn’t give any relief to the private medical colleges. NEET will also be applicable to the all-India quota seats filled by the Central government and such state governments, in respect to their state government seats, who have already opted or want to be part of NEET for UG admissions in 2016-2017. Seven states have already been the part of AIPMT.
