Supreme Court moved on NEET ordinance

Anand Rai, the whistle-blower who exposed the Vyapam medical scam in Madhya Pradesh, moved the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the NEET ordinance allowing states to admit students to government medical colleges through their own common entrance tests for academic year 2016-2017.

The petition questions the arbitrary manner in which the Centre issued the ordinance on May 24 for “political considerations” and seeks its quashing and an interim stay of its operation. He said the government had accepted in the apex court just four months ago the need for a unified uniform examination.

“Hence the present ordinance is a completely contradictory stand by the Centre within a span of four weeks,” the petitioner said.