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Medical entrance test discriminatory for NRIs:
Indian community bodies
Monday April 01, 2013 07:11:50 PM,
IANS
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Washington: Calling a new
Medical Council of India (MCI) entrance test adopted by some state
governments as discriminatory to NRI students, several Indian
community organisations in the US have sought its gradual
implementation over two years.
The new test requirement will hamper NRI students applying for
medical and dental college admission in India as there are no test
centres in the US, Europe and other countries with a large NRI
population, the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin
said in a media release.
Other community organisations including the Global Indian Diaspora
Foundation, Federation of Kerala Association of North America (FOKANA)
and Federation of Malayalee Association of America (FOMA) have
also written to the central and state authorities in this regard.
Asking the authorities to maintain status quo on admission of NRI
students to medical and dental colleges for two years, the GOPIO
said otherwise most NRI students would not be able to appear for
the examination scheduled for May 5.
About 2,000 NRI students apply to MBBS and BDS admissions in India
every year.
For the last 20 years, Indian medical colleges have been giving
admission to NRI students based on NRI quota on the basis of
equivalent certificate from the education section of the Indian
missions and the Association of Indian Universities, GOPIO said.
However, this year, MCI has implemented a centralised National
Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS and BDS admission in
India. The Kerala government is the latest one to adopt it, it
said.
Since the MCI announcement of the new national entrance test was
made only in January 2013, there is not enough time to prepare for
the test for NRI students in the current academic year as no clear
examination guidelines are available yet, GOPIO said.
NRI students from the US, South America, Canada, Australia, Africa
and Europe also have difficulty in taking the test unlike students
in the Middle East who have examination centres available in Saudi
Arabia and Dubai, it said.
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