The Supreme Court has banished the State medical joint exam for
admission in medical colleges today. The exam which is going to be held on 17Th
May will only be for candidates giving the engineering entrance test. Now, it
is a matter of big question as what will happen to the candidates who are
thinking to choose medical as their future? The answer is given by the Supreme
Court itself that the entrance exam can only be taken in a centralised way and
the candidates will get admission based on a single centralised exam.
The first phase of NEET (the above mentioned centralised exam ) had
taken place on 1st May and the second phase is going to be held on
24th July. As expected, the 75 thousand 800 medical candidates as
well as their parents are mentally devastated after hearing this decision of
the highest official on India. The
biggest portion of candidates opting for medical have the central NEET second
in their priority list, first being the state based one. Mainly due to this,
the exam of maximum candidates did not go smoothly. Many candidates did not
even sit on the phase I of NEET. It has been proposed by officials of West
Bengal and 11 other states, due to this mischief, that all candidates should be
allowed to sit in the phase II of NEET, irrespective of their scores. The
Supreme Court has complied with this. The lawyer of the state, Joydeep Mazumder
has informed that though the Supreme Court has accepted the proposal of letting
every candidate sit in the NEET phase II, they have something to say, too. They
have told that if a candidate wants to sit for the NEET phase II, he or she has
to first cancel the result of NEET phase I. To add to that, keeping the
pathetic condition of the candidates, if need arises, the judges of Supreme
Court, namely A.R.Dave, S.K.Sinha, and A.K.Goyal have decided to postpone the
NEET phase II which was going to be held on 24th July.
On 28th April, Supreme Court had notified that no state can
take medical entrances. The notice is going to be activated from the next year
onwards. West Bengal and other 11 states have been taking their medical
entrances on their own. Realising the terrible condition of the candidates,
they appealed to the Supreme Court to let them take the entrances the way they
have been taking before, to spare the candidates. After a long process of
hearing which lasted for a week, the Supreme Court dismissed all these appeals of
the state. A candidate has to pass the entrance test not only to get admission
in a Governmental college, but also in Non-Governmental and Dental college.
After the decision of the Supreme Court, the health minister Sushanta
Bandyopadhyay expressed with grief that they could do nothing, inspite of
trying their level best. He asked the candidates not to mourn and embrace, with
difficulty of course, the decision of the Supreme Court. The chairman of Joint
Entrance Board , Sajal Dasgupta, said that he has not seen the decision of the
supreme Court, but if it sticks to its previous decision, on 17thMay, they will
only take the engineering entrance test. On the other hand, an interesting
question about the presence and importance of these entrance tests has been
raised. According to many academic persons, medical and engineering colleges
should be given the right to choose candidates on their own just like
Presidency and St. Xavier’s does. One of them came up with a quite interesting
point. He said that many colleges do not have the proper infrastructure to
carry on good studies, still they get candidates from the entrance exams which
makes the study of those candidates incomplete. If colleges are given the right
to choose students, the possibility of students getting cheated will be
lessened.
However, the State is trying its level best to bring back the system of
State based joint, for at least one year.
