The ordinance bypassing the Supreme Court’s decision on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test may come as a relief (“NEET breather for States as President signs ordinance”, May 25) but a large part of the blame for the mess now rests with successive governments at the Centre which failed to implement their own
notification of 2010 proposing a single eligibility-cum-entrance examination, viz . NEET for admission to MBBS courses throughout the country. The rigidity of the Supreme Court in reconsidering its judgment, the casualness of the Centre vis-à-vis its own notification and the incapability of State governments to envisage the benefit of a single entrance test have together created untold chaos, misery, tension and anxiety as far as students and parents are concerned.
Preparation for a single entrance test should start in right earnest taking into confidence the concerns of students in various States.
B. Harish,
Mangaluru
Academic life has to be planned systematically. This year, an issue that should have been handled at the government level went all the way to the level of the Supreme Court and the President. Planning well in advance the method of entrance tests will help students.
G. Murali Mohan Rao,
Secunderabad The step towards uniformity in the medical entrance examination has faced so many hurdles since inception. Whenever there is an attempt to bring diverse elements onto a common platform, the judiciary or the executive should give sufficient time to the stakeholders to adapt to the new system, especially when there is a culture of not having entrance tests in some States. I wonder why there was a hurry this year. It resulted in such a mess.
Chennuri Rupesh,
Hyderabad
Narendra Modi’s U-turn
