The Union government on Friday informed the Kerala High Court that it was ready to bring back students in Gulf countries who had registered for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) under the Vande Bharat Mission to enable them to write the test scheduled on July 26.
The submission was made by the Centre when a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a directive to sanction examination centres in Gulf countries for NEET came up before a Division Bench.
The Centre said the students could be brought back to the country under Vande Bharat if they made the required applications before the embassies or consulates concerned.
The court had earlier asked the Centre to inform it about the possibility of bringing back the students to the country to write the examination when counsel for the National Testing Agency and the Medical Council of India (MCI) had submitted that it would not be possible to allot examination centres abroad for NEET. Unlike the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), NEET was a uniform entrance examination for admission to all medical courses in medical institutions across the country. Besides, it was not feasible to conduct NEET in online mode in a single shift for all candidates, they had submitted.
The court reserved its verdict in the case.
