NEET Chaos: SC Calls for New Guidelines to Avoid Last Minute Litigations
- Supreme Court has directed states and authorities to devise new guidelines so that last minute litigations can be avoided during medical admission season.
- This comes after numerous pleas were filed in the court with respect to NEET 2017.
The Supreme Court of India has taken note of the rush in the last minute litigations related to medical admissions which lead to nervousness among not only medical aspirants but also medical colleges. The apex court has decided to set rigid measures to avoid such situations after it was flooded with last-minute petitions regarding the issue of either denial or grant of permission to medical colleges to admit students for different medical courses such as MBBS and BDS.
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While dealing with medical colleges and its related matters, a bench of Justices LN Rao and SA Bode observed that the annual recurrence of this kind of litigation creates anxiety and extreme pressure on students, medical colleges and all concerned. The bench clarified that all the counsels and parties must lay down some rigid measures for state authorities and colleges from performing acts that generate such last-minute litigation. The apex court posted the matter for next hearing in December where the guidelines will be laid down.
While many seats in medical colleges in India have gone vacant due to confusion because of implementation of NEET, the SC has dealt with plenty petitions filed by some of the private medical colleges that were denied permission to enroll students in MBBS course for the academic session 2017-18. The central government issued official orders on the same in August 2017. These colleges informed the apex court that there were no negligible deficiencies in the college administration, functioning and admission guidelines, however, still they were denied approval to admit students. Not just colleges, CBSE has also released a list of debarred candidates from NEET 2017.
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The apex court concluded that it is the responsibility of the colleges to regulate marginal deficiencies after which they shall approach the Medical Council of India (MCI) for inspection within a reasonable time range, before the beginning of the next academic session.
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