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Kashmir
trashes MCI notification for medical courses
Tuesday January 11, 2011 01:23:43 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: Jammu and
Kashmir has decided to continue the selection process for medical
graduate and post-graduate courses through its Board of
Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE), trashing the Medical
Council of India (MCI) proposal to conduct the national
eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET).
The state's Minister for Medical Education R.S. Chibb told some
newsmen here Tuesday that a communication in this regard has
already been sent to the union government.
The minister said it was not in the interest of the candidates of
Jammu and Kashmir to do away with the BOPEE, which had been
created through a legislation passed by the state legislature.
"Whatever happens in the rest of the country, BOPEE will continue
to conduct such examinations in our state," the minister said.
The MCI had issued a notification Dec 21, 2010, for conducting
NEET for admissions to graduate and post-graduate medical and
dental courses in the country. It sought to introduce NEET for
MBBS and post-graduate admissions and fixed 50 percent marks as
cut-off for being eligible to appear in the entrance examination.
The MCI notification also said it would abide by the reservation
norms as applicable in various states for such courses.
But the union health ministry struck down the MCI notification,
calling it "invalid as the MCI had gone ahead without consulting
it".
Sources here said the union health ministry has asked the MCI to
present the proposal of NEET during the two-day conference of
state health ministers in Hyderabad later this month so that all
states are taken on board on the issue and a decision subsequently
taken.
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