SC also directed that from the year 2019-20 onwards the NEET-UG Examination will be conducted by the National Testing Agency.
The
Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the Madras High Court directive to
the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to grant 196 grace
marks to students who suffered from the erroneous Tamil translation
of 49 questions in the National
Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical
admissions.
"The
method adopted by the High Court is manifestly arbitrary and
unjustified and cannot be sustained," the top court said in its
judgement.
The
apex court observed that the court has made no attempt to see whether
the students have in fact attempted answers to the questions, which
were claimed to be imperfectly translated and has proceeded to award
the full marks for 49 questions to all candidates who had opted to
give the examination in Tamil.
The
court also directed that from the year 2019-20 onwards the NEET-UG
Examination will be conducted by the National Testing Agency and the
bilingual examination will be conducted after the question paper is
translated as set out according to the instructions in the affidavit
dated October 22, 2018, signed by Dr Vikas Gupta, Director, National
Testing Agency.
On
July 10, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court directed the CBSE
to award additional marks to students who wrote the NEET
in the Tamil language in 2018.
As
per the ruling, four marks each will be awarded for each of the
wrongly-translated 49 questions, following which a new ranking list
will be put out in two weeks.
49
questions were wrongly translated for students who wrote the NEET in
the Tamil language in 2018, after which a Public Interest Litigation
(PIL) was filed regarding the same.
