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SC issues notice to DHGS, MCI on CBSE plea on medical test
New Delhi, July 10: The Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts the examination to fill the 15 per cent all India quota medical seats in all state-run medical and dental courses, wants to change the present pattern of entrance examination from next year onwards.
New Delhi, July 10: The Central Board for Secondary
Education (CBSE), which conducts the examination to fill the
15 per cent all India quota medical seats in all state-run
medical and dental courses, wants to change the present
pattern of entrance examination from next year onwards.
On a petition filed by CBSE seeking to change the present
objective type of test for the entrance test, the Supreme
Court today issued notices to the Directorate General of
Health Services (DGHS) and Medical Council of India (MCI).
The Supreme Court in 1993 had framed the scheme
pertaining to reserving 15 per cent of seats in all state-run
medical and dental colleges selected through an all India
entrance test conducted by CBSE.
A bench comprising Justice R C Lahoti and Justice Ashok
Bhan asked the respondents to file their replies within two
weeks.
CBSE stated that it wanted to change the entrance test
question papers from the present objective type only by adding
a section having non-objective type questions.
The CBSE counsel stated that all the entrance tests for
engineering and other professional courses have non-objective
type questions in their question papers.
Bureau Report