To conduct of uniform entrance examination for admission to all medical educational institutions.
Key provisions:
- Introduction of a uniform entrance examination for all medical educational institutions.
- It will be applicable for admission at the undergraduate and the post-graduate level
- If states have not opted for the uniform entrance examination, then the examination will not be applicable at the undergraduate level for the academic year 2016-17
- This provision will be applicable to state government seats in government and private medical institutions
- Empowers MCI to frame regulations for
- the manner of conducting the exams,
- the authority designated to conduct exams and
- Specify languages other than English and Hindi in which the entrance examinations will be conducted
Analysis:
- With passage of the bills, admission to medical and dental courses across the country will be done through a single common entrance test i.e. NEET from academic year 2017-18.
- The NEET has been designed to curb corruption by bringing in transparency, checking multiplicity of exams and to stop exploitation of students in counselling
- However it said that this new system will affect rural students as there is no uniform educational syllabus across the country