New Delhi:
Admission to all medical courses in the country, even those run by minority and private organisations, will be on the basis of NEET scores, the Supreme Court said today. The top court made it clear that the rights of minority organisations would not be affected by the use of a common entrance test for prospective medical students.
"There is no violation of rights of minority institutions to come under NEET. At present, education is devoid of its real character of charity; it has become a commodity," a three-member bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Vineet Saran and MR Shah said.
"NEET (National Eligibility/Entrance Test) was introduced to wipe out corruption and other evils in the system and it is in the national interest. There are still several loopholes in the admission process that need to be plugged," the court added.
Hitting out at "unscrupulous practices adopted by private colleges", who refused to admit students sponsored by a centralised counselling panel, the court stressed that all minority and private institutions must admit students based on NEET scores.
