New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday i.e. October 22, 2010, noticed the responses of all the states, union territories along with associations of private medical colleges in order to implement Common Entrance Test (CET) for the admission in MBBS and postgraduate medical programmes in India (as per the petition filed by the Medical Council of India to the court).
Justice Raveendran asked MCI whether the implementation of CET will only be applicable to Government medical colleges or it also includes private medical colleges. MCI’s Counsel Amarinder Saran replied that the proposal would also include private medical colleges.
Speaking about the benefits of CET, Saran said that the main motive behind the implementation of CET is to make students comfortable from appearing in 14 to 15 different medical entrance tests, conducted by different agencies that also include the Association of Private Medical Colleges, because it creates a lot of confusion in the minds of the students.
Furthermore, Justice Raveendran said that MCI’s endeavors are appreciable, but the rights of private medical colleges to conduct their own CET would not be interfered. Saran cleared that the MCI’s objective is just to prevent malpractices and irregularities at the time of admission, which have now become so usual, nowadays. Therefore, it would also prevent private medical colleges from practicing such unbearable activities during admissions.
