AIIMS says can’t hold common test
The ambitious proposal to hold Common Entrance Test (CET) for post-graduate (PG) medical students from next year seems to have hit the wall.
After receiving support from most of the states, the Medical Counicl of India (MCI) had approached the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for holding the test for post graduate students. However, it is learnt that AIIMS has expressed its inability to conduct it.
Sources in the ministry disclosed that in a recent meeting held in the health ministry, AIIMS, which conducts PG entrance for 50 per cet of government seats, has expressed reluctance in holding the exam for the whole country. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will now hold a meeting with the officials of MCI and AIIMS and take a finall call.
“As of now, AIIMS is reluctant as according to them they do not have enough manpower to hold it for the whole nation,” sources said. Health ministry officials said that at present, AIIMS hold All-India PG entrance test on behalf of DGHS for 50 per cent of the government seats which comes to around 4,000 seats. “However, conducting it for the country, including the private colleges, would mean CET for 21,000 seats. They have therefore expressed their inability,” added sources.
For the under graduates medical students, MCI has asked the CBSE for conducting it. Mooted by the earlier MCI board in 2010, the CET has been into controversy ever since. Earlier ,tussle between the MCI and the health ministry sprung up after the former issued notification on CET without taking approval from the health ministry. The health ministry later came into the picture and stuck the notification calling it as invalid.
Officials said that they are hopeful regarding the PG students too.
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