The Centre had issued an ordinance deferring the implementation of NEET.
The Supreme Court has refused to conduct an urgent hearing to stay the Centre's ordinance that sought to defer NEET, the common entrance test for medical courses.
"This will create further confusion. Let there be some certainty for students," the Supreme Court said.
The petition will come up for hearing in July, the Court said, adding, "There is no urgency."
The court was hearing a public interest suit by one Anand Rai contending that the May 24 ordinance was brought to upset the April 28 judgement of the top court laying down a 'one nation one test' for admission to undergraduate medical courses across the country. Mr Rai's lawyer had argued that the ordinance is illegal, not in public interest and will breed corruption.
Opposing the plea for staying the ordinance, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said that it was promulgated to accommodate states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, who have already held there state-level entrance examinations for admitting students in government medical colleges and filled the quota of government seats in private medical colleges.
The Supreme Court had earlier ruled that admission to MBBS and BDS courses would be done only through National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and scrapped the entrance tests conducted by the state governments and private medical colleges.
The court had revived NEET after recalling its 2013 order by which the common entrance test was declared unconstitutional.
"This will create further confusion. Let there be some certainty for students," the Supreme Court said.
The petition will come up for hearing in July, the Court said, adding, "There is no urgency."
The court was hearing a public interest suit by one Anand Rai contending that the May 24 ordinance was brought to upset the April 28 judgement of the top court laying down a 'one nation one test' for admission to undergraduate medical courses across the country. Mr Rai's lawyer had argued that the ordinance is illegal, not in public interest and will breed corruption.
Opposing the plea for staying the ordinance, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said that it was promulgated to accommodate states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, who have already held there state-level entrance examinations for admitting students in government medical colleges and filled the quota of government seats in private medical colleges.
The Supreme Court had earlier ruled that admission to MBBS and BDS courses would be done only through National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and scrapped the entrance tests conducted by the state governments and private medical colleges.
The court had revived NEET after recalling its 2013 order by which the common entrance test was declared unconstitutional.
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