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| SC verdict on NEET proves J&K govt wrong | | Good news for Jammu youth | | ET Report
jammu, May 10: The May 9 landmark judgment of Supreme Court of India on National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) has, on the one hand, pleased the nationalist people of Jammu province, especially the Jammu youth, victims of discriminatory policies, and, on the other, proved the PDP-BJP coalition government wrong. It has stuck to its April 28 decision on NEET and its April 30 reiteration that it will not re-look on its stand on NEET across the country for under-graduate medical courses.
The Supreme Court had on April 28 rejected the Union Government's plea that the states be allowed to conduct separate Common Entrance Test (CET) for MBBS and BDS seats and said that there would be only one test conducted as NEET. The apex court verdict had divided the people of Jammu province and Kashmir region. All the Kashmiri parties, including all separatist outfits, and all the so-called civil society groups in the Valley had opposed the verdict, saying it would erode the state's special status and also jeopardize the interests of Kashmiri youth. The PDP-BJP coalition government had also expressed almost identical views and knocked at the doors of the apex court for its indulgence so that J&K was kept out of the ambit of the Supreme Court landmark verdict. On the other hand, the Jammu youth and concerned people in Jammu province had batted for the NEET saying the Competent Authority in J&K was Kashmir-centric and anti-Jammu. Some had suggested an alternative to both CET and NEET and batted for the January 1999 Singhal Committee recommendations, which provided for a mechanism that reserved all the seats available in the Jammu-based professional and technical colleges for the Jammu youth and all the seats available in the Kashmiri professional and technical colleges for the Kashmiri youth.
On Monday, a three-Judge bench of the Supreme Court rejected the J&K Government's plea to allow it hold CET for MBBS and BDS seats clearly saying that there would be only one test conducted as NEET. However, the bench of the apex court said that the state subject law and all reservation rules as applicable in the CET would be applied for J&K.
The three-Judge bench of Supreme Court comprising Anil R Dave, Shiva Kirti Singh and Adarsh Kumar Goel while disposing off all applications and writ petitions seeking modification of order passed by the apex court on April 11 this year, said to ensure credibility of the examination to be conducted by the CBSE, the Oversight Committee appointed by the Supreme Court will oversee the NEET-II examination.
"It is clarified that only NEET would enable students to get admission to MBBS or BDS studies,'' the bench ruled.
The Supreme Court clarified that the NEET will not affect the state subject law, reservation and other rights of any of the States (including J&K) and the private colleges.
"The NEET will only provide the merit list and nothing more. Therefore, only permanent residents will be eligible for admissions in J&K,'' the three-Judge bench of Supreme Court ruled. And, this, despite the fact that the Central Government and the Medical Council of India agreed to allow the state governments to hold their own exams this year for Government Medical Colleges. "Prima facie, we do not find any infirmity in the NEET regulation on the ground that it affects the rights of the states or the private institutions. Special provisions for reservation of any category are not subject matter of the NEET nor are rights of minority in any manner affected by NEET. NEET only provides for conducting entrance test for eligibility for admission to the MBBS/BDS course. We, thus, do not find any merit in the applications seeking modification of order dated April 28, 2016," the three-Judge bench said.
What the three-judge bench said could be construed as a great news for the Jammu youth, who had been crying for justice since decades, saying the authorities in J&K always made humiliating distinctions between them and the Kashmiri youth. It could also be construed as a big slap on the face of the votaries of state's special status. Now that the apex court has rejected the J&K Government's spurious pleas, it is hoped that the highly talented Jammu youth would obtain its due share in the professional colleges in the state. |
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