AIMA demands MCI withdraw notification

Updated on: Tuesday, January 04, 2011

The All India Medical Association (AIMA) demanded that Medical Council of India withdraw its notification, making the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS and PC medical course admissions immediately.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, AIMA President T D Naidu said the notification was illegal and arbitrary.
The notification was illegal as MCI has made NEET the sole admission criteria for admissions to all Medical colleges, including self-financing minority and non-minority
institutions, he said.

He said the MCI Board had exceeded its brief by issuing the notification, when the matter was still pending before the Supreme Court. The Board's move to hold Common Entrance Test for admission has been opposed in the Supreme court by some states, including Tamil Nadu and by Associations of unaided colleges.

He said the MCI has neither taken the Health Ministry, nor the Law Ministry into confidence, before issuing the notification. The Gazette notification also did not have the approval of cabinet and Parliament, he said and demanded its immediate withdrawal.

AIMA demands MCI withdraw notification

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