HC directs Centre, State to respond to case against NEET committee
The Hindu
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered notices returnable by July 5 to the Centre and the State government on a writ petition challenging the constitution of the Justice A.K. Rajan committee to study the impact of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on medical admissions in the State. Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy accepted a request made by Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram to grant him time to file a counter affidavit. The judges ordered that the papers should also be served on Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan to ascertain the Centre’s stand. K. Nagarajan, State general secretary of the BJP, had filed the writ petition. His counsel V. Raghavachari said NEET was introduced from the academic year 2017-18 to ensure merit-based admissions to medical colleges in the country. Nevertheless, the State government had been attempting to seek exemption from it through every possible means.
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