(With inputs from Agencies) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the announcement of results of the All-India NEET exam, set to be declared later today.The top court was listening to a plea filed by the Central Board of Secondary Education ( CBSE ) challenging the stay on declaration of results of NEET 2018, a national level entrance examination conducted for undergraduate medical and dental courses.On May 24, the Madras high court had granted an interim stay on publication of the results. Hearing a batch of petitions filed by some students, justice M V Muralidharan of the court's Madurai bench had also directed the Medical Council of India, the director of the CBSE and the Union health ministry to file their counter-affidavits by June 7.The petitioners had alleged that a uniform question paper was not given and there was a vast difference between the one in English and Tamil.They had demanded that the NEET be cancelled and a fresh examination with a uniform question paper be conducted. They had claimed that different sets of question paper had been used at various places, though a common syllabus had been announced.In its counter-affidavit, CBSE had rejected the contention that question papers in vernacular languages such as Gujarati were easier compared to English.Earlier in the day, the CBSE said results of the NEET UG exam will be announced on June 4, 2018. All aspirants looking forward to their results can check it on the official website of CBSE - cbseneet.nic.in. The results are set to be hosted on the official sites of NEET UG and CBSE.Over 11 lakh MBBS and BDS aspirants had appeared for the NEET at more than 1,900 centres across the country on 7 May.<doc-sep>CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has decided to exempt itself from NEET-2018 for admission to AYUSH courses and, instead, follow single window counselling for admission based on Class 12 marks alone this year.The decision was taken after health minister C Vijaya Baskar and senior health officials met Chief Minister Edappadi L Palaniswami at the secretariat on Monday. Unlike the Medical Council of India (MCI), which amended the Medical Council of India Act to make NEET as the sole mode of admission, the Indian council sent mere notifications saying NEET was mandatory. No amendment was made to the Indian Council of Medical Act, officials said. “We will go by the conventional method admission based on the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006 for admissions this year,” said minister Vijaya Baskar.The department of Indian medicine will start issuing prospectus for admission by the end of the week, said Indian Medicine commissioner Dr K Senthil Raj. The admission will be done by the selection committee attached to the directorate of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy based on merit in class we and 69% rule of reservation.The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has a list of 32 colleges of Indian medicine but for this year 23 colleges have permission to admit students with 1,460 seats. This includes 390 seats in six government colleges – two in Siddha with 160 seats, and one each in homeopathy (50 seats), Ayurveda (60 seats), Unani (60 seats) and Yoga and Naturopathy (60 seats).Some private self-financing colleges that were charging up to Rs 45,000 as fee have made representation to the government and the fee fixation committee seeking increase in fee structure. The fee committee report is pending.<doc-sep>No NEET-based admissions for AYUSH courses in TN, says CM The decision was taken in a high-level meeting held on Monday where the CM said that TN has conveyed its opposition to the Centre to admit students to AYUSH courses based on NEET. news NEET Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami announced that the admissions to Indian Medical courses – Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy in Tamil Nadu for the 2018 to 2019 academic year will be held based solely on Class 12 marks. The Chief Minister conducted a high-level meeting at the Secretariat on Monday to discuss the order issued by the Madurai bench of Madras High Court to award 196 grace marks to students who had given NEET 2018 in Tamil. In the meeting the decision of the central government regarding NEET-based admissions to Indian medicine courses in Tamil Nadu was also discussed. A press release from the Secretariat stated that the state government has been firm in conveying its opposition to NEET-based admissions to Indian medicine courses in the state. “The decision of the central government to adopt NEET-based admissions to Indian medicine courses is in direct contradiction to the state’s policy-based opposition and to the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Regulation of Admission in Professional Courses Act, 2006. We have already conveyed our stand regarding this to the central government. Hence, we have decided that the admissions to Indian medicine courses in Tamil Nadu will be held solely based on Class 12 marks,” the statement said. The meeting was attended by various ministers, the chief secretary, health secretaries (family welfare and Indian medicine) and other senior officers. As per official statements, this is the current policy decision to be undertaken. The Madurai bench of Madras HC ordered the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to award 196 grace marks to students who had given the NEET 2018 exam in Tamil due to translation errors in the question paper. The order was issued after the CPI(M) MP TK Rangarajan filed a petition in the HC pointing out translation issues in the Tamil question paper issued by CBSE. The court had also ordered the CBSE to release a revised rank list after incorporating the grace marks within two weeks from the date of order. Following this, the CBSE filed an appeal in the Supreme Court on Monday against this order. Read: Search on for two Bengaluru techies swept away by Cauvery at Mekedatu<doc-sep>The decision was taken following a Madras High Court order that directed Central Board of Secondary Education to grant 196 grace marks — four marks each for 49 questions — to all students who appeared for the NEET in Tamil Nadu this year The declaration of second-round allotment result for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Counselling 2018 has been postponed till further notice in compliance of the directions of the High Court of Madras. A notice on the Medical Counseling Committee (MCC) website said that students should keep checking the website for any further update. The decision was taken following a Madras High Court order that directed Central Board of Secondary Education to grant 196 grace marks — four marks each for 49 questions — to all students who appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Tamil Nadu this year. This was in response to a PIL filed by Petitioner senior CPM leader TK Rangarajan who sought full marks for the 49 questions, saying keywords in the Tamil questions were wrongly translated from English causing confusion. Justices CT Selvam and AM Basheer Ahamed of the Madurai bench also directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consequently revise the list of eligible candidates and publish it afresh. CBSE conducted the NEET on 6 May in 136 cities in 11 languages, the results of which were announced on 4 June. In Tamil Nadu, about 1.07 lakh candidates took the test across 170 centres in 10 cities. With inputs from PTI<doc-sep>
Madras High Court Madras High Court The Madras High Court today ordered the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) to award 196 marks — 4 marks each for 49 erroneous questions — to candidates who appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 in Tamil. Hearing a petition over compensatory marks, the Madurai bench of Madras High Court directed CBSE to revise NEET rank list in two weeks. Justices CT Selvam and AM Basheer Ahamed of the Madurai Bench also directed the CBSE to consequently revise the list of eligible candidates and publish it afresh. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Rangarajan. He complained that 49 questions have errors in the NEET 2018 paper. READ | NEET UG 2019: Exam date, eligibility, syllabus, application, fees, counselling details Earlier, a bench comprising Justices CT Selvam and AM Basheer Ahamed, criticised the CBSE and the government saying that the mistakes in the question paper were not mere ambiguity. The CBSE has suspended the medical counselling sessions until the new rank list is released. The CBSE said that the decision on the most appropriate answer was taken by experts and marks were awarded based on that. On this, the bench wondered whether the board entrusted with the conduct of such a national-level examination could be so uncertain about the answers to the questions raised by it. Such an exercise, giving marks for the most appropriate answer, might be acceptable for civil service examination. But to do it in respect of the NEET examination for students aged 17-18 should not have been thought of. The level of difficulty should not be raised to such a level for the teenagers, the bench said in its order. NEET 2018 results were published in June first week and the counselling process has already started. In Tamil Nadu, about 1.07 lakh candidates took the test across 170 centres in 10 cities