The Central Government on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking modification of its order on Thursday’s to allow state governments and private colleges to hold separate entrance examinations for MBBS and BDS courses for the academic year 2016-17.
The plea in this regard was submitted by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi before a Bench of Justices AR Dave and AK Goel.
The AG suggested that the Apex Court’s order had allowed holding of a two-phased single common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses via the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on May 1 and July 24, but there were some genuine difficulties and there was a need for some change in the order He suggested that the first phase of NEET scheduled for May 1 be scrapped and all the students be allowed to take the exams on July 24.
Rohatgi said there was a need to modify Friday’s order as a lot of confusion had arisen out of it. The Bench agreed to give an urgent hearing to the matter, which is likely to be taken up soon by the same Bench that had passed the order Friday.
The Apex Court had on Friday cleared the decks for the holding of NEET, a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, in two phases for the academic year 2016-17 in which around 6.5 lakh candidates are likely to appear.