“If the Joint Entrance Exam can be held online then you should consider NEET also to be held in an online form from next year,” the top court said.
The Supreme Court today told the government that students from abroad who wish to sit for the national eligibility test for medical and dental courses should be accommodated in the Vande Bharat flights. The exams can be held online from the next year to bypass the accessibility issues, the court suggested to the Medical Council of India — which conducts NEET.
“If the Joint Entrance Exam can be held online then you should consider NEET also to be held in an online form from next year,” the top court said.
A plea was filed by students and their parents living abroad, urging the apex court to set up centres for the exam. The petitioners had argued that like JEE, which has exam centres abroad, NEET should also have centres as the students cannot come to India to write the examinations.
The court told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was representing the centre: “Please communicate to the concerned ministries that these people may be allowed to come back for the exams.”
It can be done “subject to quarantine requirements and establishing that they are coming for exam purpose, SG Mehta said.
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