Congress Demands Ordinance for Separate NEET Merit List for Gujarati Medical Aspirants

The leaders of Congress party are of the opinion that the students who took NEET-UG 2017 in Gujarati medium might be at disadvantage compared to those who had taken the examination in English medium. Therefore, they met the Governor of the state, Mr. Om Prakash Kohli and sought his intervention in the issue. The leaders further demanded the state government to bring in an Ordinance for separate NEET merit list of Gujarati students. The leaders claimed that the state government must release a separate merit list of Gujarati medium students as early as possible.

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The Congress leaders pointed that the difficulty level of Gujarati medium question paper was high compared to English medium question paper. These students are being subjected to injustice as many of them were not able to secure admission in the first round of seat allotment. Around 47,583 students had appeared for the NEET examination with a choice of Gujarat medium paper. However, the majority of the students who secured a seat in the first round counselling belonged to the English medium choice. Since the first round admission process is over, the state government shall release a separate merit list of Gujarati students at least for the second round, the party demanded.

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The Congress party further threatened the state government that it would intensify the protests if the state government does not agree to the same. Subsequently, the Congress party called all the leaders and Gujarati medium students to take part in the protest that will take place in Ahmedabad on August 17, 2017.

If the state government does not resolve the issue on August 17, 2017, the Congress party will conduct rallies demanding separate merit list in all the districts across the state on August 18, 2017.