New Delhi: The Supreme court on Friday asked the Centre whether state governments will be able to conduct their own pre-medical entrance tests.
During the hearing, Medical Council of India requested the apex court to allow state governments to conduct their own medical tests. The apex court then asked the Central government to reply by Monday.
The fate of COMED-K, the entrance test for medical, engineering and dental courses in Karnataka, is also slated to be decided by the top Court.
On May 1, NEET ( expand) was conducted after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of having a single national entrance test for MBBS and BDS courses.
The apex court had on April 28 cleared the decks for the holding of NEET in two phases for the academic year 2016-17 in which around 6.5 lakh candidates are appearing. It had approved the schedule put before it by the Centre, CBSE and the Medical Council of India (MCI) for treating All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) fixed for May 1 as NEET-1.
It had said those who had not applied for AIPMT will be given the opportunity to appear in NEET-II on July 24 and the combined result would be declared on August 17 so that the admission process can be completed by September 30.
The apex court had pronounced the order after rejecting opposition for holding NEET by states, including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Association of Karnataka Medical Colleges, besides minority institutions like CMC, Vellore.
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