The
National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission in medical
colleges will be held in eight languages- Hindi, English, Assamese,
Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu- for the academic year
2017-18.
Also, the
candidate qualifying NEET will be eligible for all India quota and other
quotas under the state governments and institutes irrespective of the
medium taken by candidates, subject to other eligibility criteria, the
Union health ministry said in a statement.
In May,
Union health minister JP Nadda had held a meeting with the health
ministers and health secretaries of 18 states/Union Territories towards
implementation of NEET across states.
Joint
secretary, Medical Education, AK Singhal said, "The collaborative
efforts of Central health ministry with the state health ministries have
lead to this decision so as to bring parity for the students who have
taken the state board exams."
NEET has
replaced AIPMT and has been made mandatory for admissions in all-India
medical/dental colleges which means no other state can conduct its
separate medical entrance.