The Supreme Court today rejected submissions seeking a stay on the ordinance allowing states to hold their separate medical entrance tests.
The Apex court had earlier ruled that there must be single common National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.
However, the Centre then promulgated an ordinance which partially overturned the court’s order and allowed states to conduct their own separate entrance tests for the current academic session.
Hearing pleas challenging this ordinance, the apex court cast doubts over it but did not stay it saying that the “interest of lakhs of students were involved”; and any interference at this stage would create “chaos”, as more than 50 per cent states have already held their separate tests.