13.5.16

'Common entrance tests for MBBS, BDS will go'

Madurai: All steps will be taken to abolish the common entrance tests for medical and BDS courses which are against the welfare of poor rural students, and it was the DMK that was a part of the UPA government in 2010 when the notification was issued for conducting the common entrance test, said chief minister J Jayalalithaa.



Addressing a poll campaign meeting in Tirunelveli on Thursday, she said it was her government which had taken steps to ensure that the common entrance tests were abolished and a special act was enacted to protect the welfare of the rural students. It was in the interest of these students that the AIADMK government issued an order to do away with entrance tests for these courses. In 2006, a special act was enacted for the same issue and the selection for the medical and BDS courses were conducted based only on the plus two results since 2007.

The Medical Council of India announced that a nationwide entrance examination should be conducted for entry into these professional courses on Dec 27, 2010, which was opposed by many state governments. "The efforts taken by the government headed by me resulted in the Supreme Court dismissing the MCI order on July 18, 2013," she said. But the former UPA government, in which the DMK was a part, filed a review petition in the court. Now, in another case a three-judge bench has ordered that a common test be conducted throughout the country on May 9, 2016.



DMK leader M Karunanidhi, who was in the habit of seeking political gains out of any situation, was now blaming the AIADMK government, saying that it had not argued the case properly in the Supreme Court, when it was the DMK which had been a part of the UPA government when the MCI passed the order for a common entrance test in 2010, she said.



Listing out the benefits brought to the people by her government, Jayalalithaa said every single vote that went to the DMK would be something that was going against the welfare of the people and the children of the state.


All our schemes have been aimed at uplifting the poor people of the state, while the DMK manifesto was one that had been chalked out to fool the people.

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