NEET APPLICATION PROCESS SET TO CLOSE, NO CLARITY YET ON DISABILITY QUOTA:
NEET APPLICATION PROCESS SET TO CLOSE:
☛ With the online application process for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2019-20 set to close in just three days, aspirants with disabilities remain in a bind. Reason: The Medical Council of India (MCI) is yet to notify the revised guidelines for admission to MBBS courses under the disability quota.
☛ The MCI made its draft guidelines public on November 16, inviting suggestions and objections by November 30, which is, importantly, also the last day for submission of NEET application form.
☛ This essentially means that the eligibility of candidates with disabilities will be decided on the basis of draft MCI guidelines that categorises several disabilities as ineligible even as the Supreme Court and high courts have ruled otherwise.
☛ Doctors with Disabilities, a pan-India body of doctors with disabilities, have already written to MCI to extend the last date to fill the NEET-UG 2019-20 form and also allow candidates with disabilities to reconsider their application if they have already registered.
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