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Hold AIPMT & Declare Results By August 17, SC Tells CBSE


NEW DELHI:
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the CBSE to re-conduct and declare the results of All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMT) by August 17. It also fixed the time schedule for counseling of successful medical aspiring students to prevent undue delay in the academic session. The court on June 15 cancelled this year's AIPMT finding it rigged by tech-savvy students and directed the CBSE to conduct a fresh exam within four weeks but a bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre extended the deadline by one month after the CBSE expressed its inability to conduct the exam by July 15.

 

Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told the bench it was impossible to conduct the exam within a month and it would take a minimum of four months time to hold the fresh exam. He said that the CBSE was to conduct seven other competitive exams in the coming months and the board required more time to conduct AIPMT. AG's contention was strongly opposed by advocate Pushp Gupta who was appearing for students who had appeared for the May 3 test. She contended that the Board had the wherewithal to conduct the exam within a fortnight.

 

The bench after hearing their arguments extended the deadline for one more month. It directed the board to take the task of holding the exam on most urgent basis. The court also directed Medical Council of India (MCI) to complete the counseling process by September 11 so that the academic session could begin from mid-September. It directed the MCI to hold first counseling by August 28, second counseling by September 4 and third counseling by September 11.

 

AIPMT is the gateway for admission to 15% of seats in all central government medical colleges and participating state government medical colleges. The new academic session was scheduled to begin from August 1 but it will get delayed by one and half months. The court on Monday cancelled the AIPMT in view of large-scale cheating by students. The erring students got answers to questions through electronic devices they smuggled into test centres across the country. Around 6.3 lakh aspiring medical students appeared at 1,050 centres across the country for the exam on May 3.

Posted on 20 Jun 2015