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Why
opposed to common entrance test: Supreme Court to health ministry
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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New Delhi: Asking the
union health ministry why it was opposed to the Central Board of
Secondary Education's (CBSE) plan to hold a common entrance test
for engineering, medical and dental courses in the country, the
Supreme Court Friday directed it to put its objections in writing.
The apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K.
Patnaik issued notice on the CBSE's application seeking the
court's permission to hold an integrated Common Entrance Test (CET)
from 2011-12.
When senior counsel for the union health ministry opposed the
human resource development ministry's proposal pleading certain
difficulties in holding such an examination, the court asked: "Is
it genuine difficulty or a departmental fight between two
ministries?"
Appearing for the CBSE, senior counsel Altaf Ahmed submitted that
the CET would help the students in taking a single examination.
At this, the court asked the senior counsel about the procedure
that the CBSE would follow in giving admission to the students who
would succeed in the CET.
Altaf Ahmed told the court that there will be separate merit lists
for the medical and engineering students. After counselling of the
successful students, they will be allotted courses and colleges.
The court was told that time and again in the CBSE governing body
it was said that the All India Pre-Medical, Pre-Dental Entrance
Examination and All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which
are conducted by the Board, should be integrated and a CET held in
the larger interest of students.
When counsel for the health ministry opposed the proposal, Justice
Raveendran asked: "If it is really in the interest of the students
why are you opposing it?"
The court asked the health ministry to put its objections in
writing.
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