Govt moots review plea against SC order scrapping common medical entrance test
20 July 2013 11:18 PM GMT
An ‘upset’ government may file a review petition on the Supreme Court verdict scrapping common entrance test for medical colleges, with health minister GhulamNabi Azad making it clear on Friday that legal recourse is the only option available.
Azad said the apex court order will create difficulties for students aspiring for medical degrees and the health ministry has sought legal opinion on the judgement.
‘We are very upset,’ he said while commenting on Thursday’s ruling by the top court. He has already asked officials to study the judgement to decide the future course of action.
The minister said the government was ‘expecting a better outcome’ but ‘unfortunately that did not happen.’
The court ruling, he said, was ‘a little demoralising for us because we wanted to clean up a number of things’.
Asked what the government planned to do, the minister said, ‘there is a legal recourse. There is no other way.’ A petition seeking review comes up before the same bench of the apex court which has delivered the judgement.
Commenting on the order, he said the Supreme Court merely said that MCI should not conduct exams but did not say who else should conduct the tests.
Azad said the apex court order will create difficulties for students aspiring for medical degrees and the health ministry has sought legal opinion on the judgement.
‘We are very upset,’ he said while commenting on Thursday’s ruling by the top court. He has already asked officials to study the judgement to decide the future course of action.
The minister said the government was ‘expecting a better outcome’ but ‘unfortunately that did not happen.’
The court ruling, he said, was ‘a little demoralising for us because we wanted to clean up a number of things’.
Asked what the government planned to do, the minister said, ‘there is a legal recourse. There is no other way.’ A petition seeking review comes up before the same bench of the apex court which has delivered the judgement.
Commenting on the order, he said the Supreme Court merely said that MCI should not conduct exams but did not say who else should conduct the tests.
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