Medical Dental Colleges
HC judges split on plea for admission test
The High Court yesterday issued a split verdict on a petition filed seeking its directives on the government to immediately start the admission process at medical and dental colleges by holding a test.
Justice Qamrul Islam Siddiqui, senior judge of an HC bench formed to hear the petition, directed the authorities concerned to immediately start the admission process, while junior judge of the bench Justice Md Ashraful Kamal rejected the petition.
The HC bench will now send the petition along with its dissenting orders to the chief justice for a decision, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star.
The chief justice will refer the matter to another bench of the HC for its disposal, he added.
The government, said Alam, should not proceed on with the admission at medical and dental colleges for 2012-13 academic sessions until the matter is settled in the court.
Advocate Eunus Ali Akond had filed the petition on August 23. In the petition he said as per the National Education Policy, 2010, the admission process of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) have to be completed within a month after publication of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) results.
Earlier on August 12, the government had decided that students will be enrolled for the MBBS and BDS courses based on the GPA achieved by them in the SSC and HSC exams and there will be no admission tests.
Two days later, another HC bench had issued a rule upon the government to explain why its decision on selecting students for medical and dental colleges on the basis of their GPA should not be declared illegal.
Eunus Ali himself moved the petition.
Meanwhile, police yesterday foiled a demonstration by a group of medical and dental college admission seekers in front of the Central Shaheed Minar.
The law enforcers detained eight admission seekers who gathered there to hold a protest rally demanding restoration of the previous admission system.
Later they were freed in the afternoon.
-With The Daily Star input
