The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday upheld the Medical Council of India’s regulation making it obligatory for college students to qualify for the Nationwide Eligibility-cum-Entrance Check (NEET) to pursue undergraduate medical programs in overseas establishments. This regulation, launched in 2018, ensures that Indian college students learning medication overseas meet the required requirements to observe medication in India.
The courtroom ruling said that the regulation is truthful, clear, and doesn’t battle with any statutory provisions. The requirement of qualifying the NEET UG is along with fulfilling the eligibility standards prescribed within the Graduate Medical Schooling Rules, 1997. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Okay Vinod Chandran heard the petition within the Supreme Court docket.
The petitioners had challenged the regulation, arguing that it was launched with out amending the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. Nevertheless, the courtroom held that the Medical Council had the facility to introduce the regulation underneath Part 33 of the Act.
“We discover completely no purpose to intervene with the rules,” the bench stated. The Supreme Court docket additionally refused an exemption as a one time measure.
“Clearly, with open eyes, after the amended rules got here into impact if any candidate selected to acquire admission in a overseas establishment for pursuing a course resulting in a main medical qualification, they can not look for an exemption from the rules; which lays down important eligibility standards for practising medication throughout the nation. This doesn’t prohibit their proper to observe anyplace exterior India,” the bench stated.
This ruling implies that Indian college students looking for to review medication overseas should now qualify NEET UG to be eligible for admission to overseas medical establishments.
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