New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday sought more information and clarification on few points from the Health Ministry over the decision to bring an Ordinance on uniform medical entrance examination Neet that seeks to keep state boards out of its purview.
The need for more information was conveyed to health minister J.P. Nadda who called on the President this afternoon to brief him about the need for bringing the Executive Order before the latter leaves for China on Tuesday.
The meeting lasted for more than half-an-hour and the minister is learnt to have briefed the President on three set of issues — different exams of state boards, syllabi and regional languages.
Health ministry sources said that during the meeting, some fresh information was sought by the President. “The Ministry is in the process of sending them,” sources added.
The President had earlier asked Nadda’s ministry to explain the reason for taking the Ordinance route to keep state boards out of the ambit of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The meeting between the President and Mr Nadda was “satisfactory”, the sources said.
