Prez signs ordinance keeping state boards out of NEET this year

24 May, New Delhi

President Pranab Mukherjee today signed the ordinance to keep state boards out of the common entrance test (NEET) for MBBS and dental courses for this year.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi was at the President’s Secretariat early this morning along with top Health Ministry officials to respond to clarifications sought by the President on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

The ordinance on NEET is aimed at partially overturning a Supreme Court order that had taken into account the multiple medical entrance tests by states and private colleges as well as allegations of corruption.

Health Minister J P Nadda today said, government was clear from the very beginning and has always been in favour of NEET. Briefing media in New Delhi,r Nadda said NEET has been given a firm statutory basis following the signing of the Ordinance.