NEET-SS: SC says medical education has become business

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, pulling up the Centre, on the changes in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super Specialty (NEET-SS) 2021 pattern, said the impression and message which will go out is that medical education and medical regulation in the country has become a business and it appears the entire haste is for filling […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, pulling up the Centre, on the changes in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super Specialty (NEET-SS) 2021 pattern, said the impression and message which will go out is that medical education and medical regulation in the country has become a business and it appears the entire haste is for filling the vacant seats.

A bench headed by justice DY Chandrachud said: “The impression we get is, that the medical education has become a business and medical regulation has also become a business”. The bench also comprising justices Vikram Nath and BV Nagarathna said this would become a tragedy for medical education in the country.
The bench told Centre’s counsel, “If there is obduracy on your part, arms of law are long enough to prevent that”.

The bench noted that usually seats are vacant never in government colleges, rather it is always private colleges. “We have a surmise, that the seats in government colleges are not lying vacant. It is a reasonable surmise. It appears that the entire haste is for filling the vacant seats”, it noted.

The bench, in more than two-hour long hearing, emphasised that the interest of students is far higher than that of the institutions and private institutions have made investments and in this scenario, a balance needs to be struck.

The bench noted, “Now all questions are from general medicine. What this does is privileging students who have done general medicine at the cost of all other feeder specialties?”

On the aspect of syllabus change, the bench told the National Board of Examinations (NBE) counsel, “what was the hurry. You have an examination pattern which had been going on from 2018 to 2020…”

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