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In its impleadment application in the apex court on Friday, the D D Medical College and D D Hospital, represented by TD Naidu, said that though the college was not a party in the pending matter, any order passed by the court would seriously prejudice the interests of the students and hence it was supporting the stand of the Tamil Nadu government. It said that it must be heard before any order was passed approving the amendment and the CET.
The petition submitted that Tamil Nadu had abolished entrance tests for admissions to professional courses in 2007 and the selection and admissions were being made as per the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act.
The entrance test was abolished on the recommendations of an expert committee, which found that CET was a cumbersome process. "The CET causes mental agony to the students and parents especially from rural areas and the persons hailing from lower strata of society," it said.
Naidu said that it was found that rural students were unable to compete with urban students in the CET since there was lack of training for rural students to undertake and face such competitive examination.
"The number of institutions and study materials that are available in the urban areas are not available in rural areas and, therefore, students hailing from urban areas always have an edge over rural students." The application said the proposed MCI regulation for conducting a single entrance test for admission to medical courses would be in contradiction to the state legislation and would affect the policy of the state government. The applicant also made it clear that if there was any conflict between the basis of selection made by the Centre and the state legislation, the state law would prevail.
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