New Delhi: The Supreme Court announced today that Medical colleges in Tamil Nadu will have to use a national and common entrance exam as the only basis for admissions, which had required exemption from being clear by NEET for this year, at least in government-funded colleges, delivering a big setback for Tamil Nadu, Government of Tamil Nadu says that NEET gives an unreasonable advantage to students from schools that follow the CBSE or national board and makes it tough for students from rural areas to fight with those in cities for limited college seats.
The state uses Class 12 marks to decide medical admissions, Critics of the state government have alleged that it is opposing NEET to back private state board schools, It required to avoid the Supreme Court’s ruling last year for a common medical test by issuing an executive order that exempted students from NEET the center suggested it would back the move and the order was cleared by two ministries: Law and Human Resources Development, But today, the center said it could not support the ordinance, reportedly because it would encourage other states to ignore the call for a common entrance exam.
