From '17, NEET to be held in Marathi, 7 other languages

From '17, NEET to be held in Marathi, 7 other languages

Mumbai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





Medical aspirants can appear for the National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test (NEET) in eight languages including English and Marathi for admissions in 2017.

 The decision was recently taken by the Union health ministry on the directive of the Supreme Court. Even while the CBSE is yet to release an official notice announcing the move, students have welcomed it. About 1,670 medical aspirants took the state's common entrance test (CET) in Marathi this year.

NEET was re-implemented after three years, in 2016 after a SC order revived it. About 7.5 lakh students took the exam in phase-I and phase-II.While state government colleges were exempted from using NEET scores this year, it will be the on ly test conducted for medical admissions for all colleges, including, government, private and deemed in 2017. The court had directed the government to conduct the test in regional languages, as many students take the state-level CET in regional languages, too.

 Following the directive, the Centre has decided to conduct the national test in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, apart from English and Hindi. A parent said that the decision will benefit many students who skipped NEET this year due to the language barrier.

 

Source: Dec 24 2016 : The Times of India (NaviMumbai)