NEET to hold up medical admissions
Results only by third week of June.
Thiruvananthapuram: The MBBS and BDS admissions in the state will be delayed further as the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) results may be declared only by the third week of June. The results which were earlier scheduled to be announced on Thursday had to be postponed as Gujarat and Madras High Courts had stayed them till June 12. The CBSE moved the Supreme Court against the stay order on Friday. The case is likely to come up on Monday. The Medical Council of India has fixed September 30 as the deadline for completing the admissions for MBBS and BDS course.
The Gujarat High Court while considering the case recently had stated that since the Madurai branch of Madras High Court had already stayed the declaration of the results till June 12, it would not pass any order before that. It is expected that the verdicts from the Madras and Gujarat HC would come out only on June 12 and 13 respectively. The Madurai bench had ordered the board to stay the results after a petition was filed against it for different sets of question papers set for English medium and regional languages.
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has filed a counter affidavit before the Madras High Court bench in reply to a few writ petitions filed by a section of students to cancel the NEET held on May 7. It has urged the court to vacate an interim order passed by it on May 24 restraining the CBSE from declaring the results. As many as 40 petitioners filed the case in the Gujarat High Court claiming that the Gujarati and English question papers were different in the NEET examination. Apart from Hindi and English, tests were held in six regional languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu.