The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a review petition challenging its judgement of striking down the single common entrance test for medical courses. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) was conducted for admission in MBBS, BDS and postgraduate courses in all medical colleges.
However, a three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir (now retired) had scrapped the NEET by a 2-1 division in 2013.
The SC bench had said that the Medical Council of India (MCI) did not have the jurisdiction to formulate the common entrance test and enforce it on private medical colleges.
Students now appear for several entrance examinations conducted by government and private medical colleges.
Earlier, a petitioner in the plea had claimed that the minority view in the judgement rightly held that if NEET is conducted under the supervision of the apex professional body, no extraneous and irrelevant factors like caste, creed, social or economic standing would come into play.
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