NAGPUR: The issue of single entrance exam for admissions to medical colleges all over India will be raised in Maharashtra assembly on Thursday. TOI had reported on March 14
how city-based parents' group was disturbed over Supreme Court directive to hold common admission test for all medical colleges in the country and was planning to approach the courts seeking time to implement the system.
The group got another shot in the arm when MLA Devendra Fadnavis agreed to raise the issue in the ongoing assembly session at Mumbai. Speaking to TOI from Mumbai, Fadnavis said "I was contacted by the parents' group from Nagpur. Their concern is genuine as it affects their children's future. I will be raising this issue in the house so that more clarity can be had on the subject."
Member of the parents' group Dr. Sushrut Babhulkar said till date over 5,000 parents and students from Vidarbha had signed a petition urging all stakeholders to reconsider the implementation of a single medical entrance test from coming academic session. The petition also talks about the disparity between CBSE and State board syllabi, which they say puts the latter's students at a disadvantage.
Babhulkar said, "Next week, the Medical Council Of India will be meeting in Delhi and we will hand over this petition to them. The future of the lakhs of students from Maharashtra is at stake." The group will also be filing a public interest litigation before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High court on Monday and approaching the SC too the same day. Mohan Sudame, who will represent the group in the high court, said, "we are pleading for time up to five years and in the meantime asking the state government to revise the syllabus so that our students can compete with those from CBSE in the common entrance test".
Babhulkar will be going to Delhi on Friday with brief for SC petition. He said, "as this matter is still before the SC we will file an intervention. The SC has asked the opinions of various states on the single entrance exam. We would also like to put forward our views as it will affect lakhs of children who will suffer because of this policy. We are not against the single exam but we want its implementation should be done only after a lot of consideration.
The group got another shot in the arm when MLA Devendra Fadnavis agreed to raise the issue in the ongoing assembly session at Mumbai. Speaking to TOI from Mumbai, Fadnavis said "I was contacted by the parents' group from Nagpur. Their concern is genuine as it affects their children's future. I will be raising this issue in the house so that more clarity can be had on the subject."
Member of the parents' group Dr. Sushrut Babhulkar said till date over 5,000 parents and students from Vidarbha had signed a petition urging all stakeholders to reconsider the implementation of a single medical entrance test from coming academic session. The petition also talks about the disparity between CBSE and State board syllabi, which they say puts the latter's students at a disadvantage.
Babhulkar said, "Next week, the Medical Council Of India will be meeting in Delhi and we will hand over this petition to them. The future of the lakhs of students from Maharashtra is at stake." The group will also be filing a public interest litigation before the Nagpur bench of Bombay High court on Monday and approaching the SC too the same day. Mohan Sudame, who will represent the group in the high court, said, "we are pleading for time up to five years and in the meantime asking the state government to revise the syllabus so that our students can compete with those from CBSE in the common entrance test".
Babhulkar will be going to Delhi on Friday with brief for SC petition. He said, "as this matter is still before the SC we will file an intervention. The SC has asked the opinions of various states on the single entrance exam. We would also like to put forward our views as it will affect lakhs of children who will suffer because of this policy. We are not against the single exam but we want its implementation should be done only after a lot of consideration.
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