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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Disability Assessment: A Path to Inclusion and Justice

The Supreme Court's recent judgment in Omkar Ramachandra Gond v. Union of India is a landmark decision that addresses the issue of disability assessment in medical admissions. The judgment sets a precedent by holding that the mere existence of a benchmark disability is not sufficient to disqualify a person from pursuing medicine. It also emphasizes that the medical board must …

Law Education Healthcare Disability New Delhi

6 months ago

DC Edit | Thorough probe vital on NEET; overhaul if needed

Deccan Chronicle

The skeletons various state police teams which investigate irregularities related to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for medical admissions in the country discover in the cupboards call for a comprehensive nation-wide criminal investigation into the whole affair. Indian institutions have been conducting nation-wide competitive examinations for decades without a hitch: the IIT joint entrance examinations and the entrance tests for admissions …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Calcutta High Court Dismisses Pleas Seeking Action Over Alleged Misuse Of NRI Quota For Admission To Private Medical Colleges

Live Law

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed pleas seeking the Court's intervention over the issue of NRI quota in medical admissions and compliance with the Supreme Court's guidelines on the same.In dismissing the plea, a division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya noted that the pleas were from 2019, and that since then there were various changes …

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1 year, 2 months ago

National Medical Commission cancels 141 MBBS admissions in state

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: The National Medical Commission has announced the cancellation of 141 stray-vacancy-round MBBS admissions in the state which were conducted at the institute level through email communication. The Graduate Medical Education Regulations of 2023 permit online admission processes, but the state CET cell went against this by instructing applicants to submit their applications via email. The NMC’s official notification, dated …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Tamil Nadu moves SC, challenges validity of NEET

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination for admissions in medical courses in colleges across the nation, alleging that the single window common test is violative of the principle of federalism. The NEET is a pre-medical entrance test for admissions in undergraduate medical courses such as …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court Extends Last Date For PG Medical Admissions 2022-23 Till November 25 Allowing NMC's Plea

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed an application filed by the National Medical Commission to extend the last date of admissions till November 25, 2022, for post-graduate medical courses for the academic year 2022-23 for All India Quota seats as well as Deemed & Central Universities and State Quota Seats.The extension was sought on the ground that as a result …

Supreme Court Last Date Medical Admissions

2 years, 7 months ago

NEET 2022: Why is Tamil Nadu Govt Against National Exam? How Did it Turn Into a 'People's Movement'?

News 18

The Tamil Nadu government is expecting presidential assent on anti-NEET bill that has been sent to the Centre by Governor RN Ravi, proposing that students be admitted to medical colleges based on scores from Class 12. When the MK Stalin-led DMK government came into power in 2021, a panel headed by retired justice AK Rajan was set up to study …

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3 years, 6 months ago

NEET panel to submit report soon: TN Govt

India Today

A high-level committee led by retired judge of the Madras High Court, A K Rajan to study the impact of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test on aspirants from the socially disadvantaged sections in medical admissions, would make its recommendations in a month, the state government said on Thursday. Besides Justice Rajan, who heads the panel, there would be eight other members …

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4 years, 1 month ago

The Hindu Explains | How will Tamil Nadu’s 7.5% reservation in medical admissions help students from state-run schools?

The Hindu

The story so far: On October 30, the Tamil Nadu Governor gave his assent to a Bill that sought to reserve 7.5% seats in undergraduate medical admissions for government-school students who qualified NEET. Since 2017, when NEET was implemented in Tamil Nadu, only 14 students from government schools have managed to get admitted to the MBBS course. In 2018-2019 and …

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4 years, 3 months ago

TN Assembly passes Bill to provide horizontal reservation for government school students in medical admissions