Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare
Medical Entrance Examination
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts All
India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination only for 15 per cent seats in
the Government Medical/Dental Colleges in the country and candidates can opt for
question paper either in English or in Hindi. For the remaining 85 per cent
seats, the States conduct their own entrance examination and have the liberty to
conduct it in their respective regional languages and, as such, there is no ban
on use of regional languages as a medium for medical entrance examination
The Supreme Court, in Simran Jain case, has accepted the
proposal of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to conduct common entrance test
viz. National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to Under
Graduate (UG) and Post Graduate (PG) medical courses in the country and directed
the Council to take such steps as are necessary to implement the NEET.
Accordingly, the Central Government has constituted a Committee to finalize the
modalities for implementation of NEET
A few State Governments have expressed apprehensions about
the proposed NEET inter alia relating to medium of the test. The Central Board
of Secondary Education, which is the agency for conducting NEET for UG, has
constituted an Advisory Committee consisting of Members from States to address
the issues of admission processes prevalent in various States like reservation,
medium of test, etc.