MADURAI
When counselling for admission to all professional courses ends by July, the one for AYUSH is to be held only in November. Even those candidates willing to join AYUSH courses would pick other professional courses instead of waiting with uncertainty, complained a public interest litigation petition filed before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, on Monday.
The petitioner, R. Appu Nadesan of Kanniyakumari, a former MLA and founder of Shree Ramakrishna Group of Institutions, Kulasekharam, complained that with counselling for AYUSH courses conducted belatedly in November, aspirants for these courses were not willing to wait till the last moment and instead chose other courses, fearing losing a year in case of non-admission.
For the past three academic years this was the case.
With NEET not being a requirement to join AYUSH courses, if counselling was held at the same time as that of the other professional courses, aspirants, particularly those from rural background, would benefit, the petitioner said.
Counselling for AYUSH courses should be held along with other courses from 2019-20, he said.
A Division Bench of Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and B. Pugalendhi summoned Joint Director in the Directorate of Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy, Chennai, and adjourned the case till July 30.
