Supreme Court asks Tamil Nadu to start the process of counselling immediately and finish the process by September 4.
The Supreme Court today rejected a plea by Tamil Nadu students to exempt them from taking the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admissions to medical college this year.
The apex court on Tuesday said NEET will be the only basis for admissions.
The top court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to start counselling immediately and finish the process by September 4.
According to an NDTV report, the Centre told the court that it can't back Tamil Nadu's ordinance as it would encourage other states to ignore NEET.
Last year, in a call for common entrance test, NEET has replaced the All India Pre Medical Test and other tests conducted by private institution.
On August 16, the medical students from Tamil Nadu moved the Supreme Court seeking directive for the state government to start medical counselling soon.
This came after the NEET, which was made mandatory for admission in the MBBS and the BDS courses across India last year, got separate petitions filed at the Madras and Gujarat High Courts, where medical aspirants demanded cancellation of the NEET 2017 as the Gujarati and Tamil medium paper were allegedly tougher than the English and Hindi medium.
The medical aspirants in the case are being represented by Nalini Chidambaram before the apex court.
Earlier on May 24, the Madras High Court had stayed any proceedings on the NEET result.
Keeping the urgency of the result in mind and the starting of counselling sessions for successful candidates in mind, the apex court has stayed the Madras High Court order.
Nearly 12 lakh candidates across India had appeared for the NEET in 10 languages including English, Hindi and others.
(with inputs from ANI)
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