: The Supreme Court ruling on Friday that National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), the common all-India medical entrance test for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses, be held as scheduled in two phases — on May 1 and July 24— has put the Andhra Pradesh government in a quandary.
The apex court made it clear that its directive would supersede all other orders relating to medical admissions; that all admission tests, already held or scheduled for later, for admission to government colleges, deemed universities, private medical colleges, minority and linguistic minority colleges, stand scrapped.
The apex court move triggered turmoil among the Cabinet Ministers who until Friday morning were confident of convincing the court for exemption from NEET by filing a review petition. Human Resource Development Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao, who allayed students’ fears at a meeting held at JNTUK-Kakinada, saying that the government would ensure justice to the students, sounded unsure post SC verdict. “We will file a review petition in the apex court seeking exemption from NEET for AP students for the next two or three years as they are not familiar with the CBSE syllabus,” the Minister told The Hindu .
The government has already announced that the EAMCET result will be released on May 9. “In the wake of the SC verdict, our predicament now is whether to release the result under these circumstances. Because if we announce the result and the exams are declared invalid, lakhs of students will feel let down,” he said. The Minister said the issue would be discussed threadbare at a Cabinet meeting slated for May 2.
Uncertainty over EAMCET result; govt. will file a review plea,
says Ganta
