25-Oct-2017
The center communicated its decision to
representatives of all the states in a video conference on 16th Oct'17 that
from 2018 onwards UG medical (MBBS) aspirants will have the option to get question
papers of NEET in regional languages too along with in English.
However, there
seems to be still some dilemma of acceptance by some of the states in this
regard.
Bengal government's action for
NEET 2018
Bengal has dropped the plan to hold a separate medical
entrance examination after the center said the common national entrance exam's
regional language papers next year would be the translation of English version.
The national entrance-cum-eligibility test (NEET) this
year sparked allegations that the NEET Question paper in English was easier
than some of the regional language ones, including Bengali.
However according to Bengal education minister, the
state is exploring all possibilities to keep medical aspirants of Bengal out of
the ambit of common test for another year. He said the main intention behind
this is to give the center at least a year to see whether they can develop a
mechanism so that the students particularly from rural areas studying mostly in
state board don't face problems which had happened in Tamil Nadu in NEET 2017.
The director of Bengal medical education Debasish
Bhattacharya said he had written to CBSE board, which conducts NEET, on May 8
flagging the disadvantages students from Bengal had faced, the Union HRD
minister Prakash Javadekar, had said in July that NEET question papers in
regional languages would be a translation of the NEET Question paper in
English.
According to the Bengal higher education departmental
sources, the four students from the state who figured among the top 50inNEET
2017 were all from CBSE board.
Tamil Nadu government's action
for NEET 2018
This would be important to mention here according to
our sources, till now it is not clear what Tamil Nadu government would do
following canter’s video conference of 16th Oct'17. Along with Bengal and few
other states a representative of TN had taken part in that video conference.
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