Medical entrance in India faces a test
A single entrance exam for medical admission will ensure that merit will not be sidelined.
January 14, 2011 / 13:06 IST
By: Nilofer D'Souza, Udit Misra/ Forbes India
A single entrance exam for medical admission will ensure that merit will not be sidelined.After years of being plagued by corruption, the process of medical admission in India is now getting a face lift. This is being done by the Medical Council of India (MCI) which is now being headed by a six-member panel. The new panel was formed after Ketan Desai, who was the president of MCI was caught taking a bribe in April 2010 and the regulating body was dissolved for a while.
One of the first things that the MCI, in its new avatar has done is to propose one common entrance test on an all-India basis for undergraduate medical science. Even as this proposal was tabled, it faced opposition from some states and private colleges. In early December, the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of MCI
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