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Govt. for common entrance test for all medical colleges

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI July 24. The Centre today justified the guidelines issued in May this year regarding admissions to professional colleges and asserted that at least 75 per cent of the seats should be drawn from students who had qualified in the common entrance test conducted by the State agency.

The Additional Solicitor-General, R.N. Trivedi, made this submission before a five-member Constitution Bench headed by the Chief Justice, Justice V.N. Khare, hearing petitions seeking re-interpretation of the 11-Judge Bench judgment in the T.M.A. Pai case.

The Bench included Justice S.N. Variava, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S.B. Sinha.

Mr. Trivedi said the Centre favoured a combined all-India examination for selection of candidates to various Government and private medical and dental colleges in different States.

He said students now had to appear in several entrance tests, buy separate forms for several private colleges each costing between Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000, leave out certain tests as the dates of examination clashed.

However, there was no examination for the management quota.

In view of such difficulties the Centre was willing to conduct through a suitable agency, the combined all-India examination for selection of candidates for admission to various Government and private medical/dental colleges in different States.

The Attorney-General, Soli Sorabjee, who is assisting the court, said though the unaided minority educational institutions (UMEIs) had a right to frame a fee structure, they could not charge capitation fee or sell seats.

He called for a mechanism to ensure that UMEIs did not charge capitation fees nor indulge in profiteering.

The arguments will continue on Tuesday.

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