NEET Admission: Supreme Court Allows Maharashtra Government To Go Ahead With Its Domicile Party

NEET is a very compulsory exam for the admission in any graduate medical course (MBBS), dental course (BDS) or postgraduate course (MD/MS) in any government or private medical colleges in India. With a petition signed by students (who are not from Maharashtra but studying there) of Maharashtra to allow admission in the medical colleges. On Monday, Bombay High Court declined to interfere into the matter and asked Maharashtra to go ahead with its domicile policy.

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The court was hearing petition filed by students of Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir´s Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hiray Dental College and Hospital, a private unaided college and the students outside of Maharashtra. The petition was about, medical colleges and universities were not accepting students from other states.

The High Court had on August 30 stayed a government’s resolution that made it mandatory for all deemed medical colleges and universities to follow the NEET merit list for admitting students.

According to the latest data, more than 20,000 students had registered for the centralised admission process through NEET for admissions to 1,675 seats in deemed institutes in Maharashtra. The selection list was supposed to be published by September 3, but it was stayed by the High Court till it decides on those petitions.

The petitioners have challenged the rules that allow the advantage of reservation only to local students, questioning how such domicile rules could be applied in private unaided colleges.

NEET-No Separate Medical Entrance Exams In State

Undergraduate admission to medical courses can only be done through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the Supreme Court said on Monday. In a major decision with regard to NEET, the Supreme Court on Monday said that the students who could not appear in NEET 1 would be allowed to appear in NEET 2, scheduled for July 24. 

Only NEET would enable candidates to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies. In accordance with the court order, CBSE’s AIPMT on May 1 was considered as the first phase of NEET wherein over six lakh students had appeared. 

On April 28, 2016, the Supreme Court put to rest all confusion by modifying its order by which it had allowed Centre and CBSE to conduct a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses through National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET).

The top court had approved the schedule put before it by the Centre, CBSE and Medical Medical Council of India (MCI) for treating All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) fixed for May 1 as NEET-1. With this clarification the court had made it clear that all other admission tests, already held or scheduled for later for admission to diverse government colleges, deemed universities, minority and linguistic minority colleges, private medical colleges, stand scrapped. 

Later, the state governments, including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, sought a modification of this order to enable them conduct their separate exam for this year. But the five Judge bench on Monday said, "Only NEET would enable students' to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies" 

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