An “upset” government may file a review petition on the Supreme Court verdict scrapping common entrance test for medical colleges, with Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday making it clear that legal recourse is the only option available.
Mr Azad said the apex court order will create difficulties for students aspiring for medical degrees and the Health Ministry has sought legal opinion on the judgement.
“We are very upset,” he said while commenting on Thursday’s ruling by the top court. He has already asked officials to study the judgement to decide the future course of action.
The minister said the government was “expecting a better outcome” but “unfortunately that did not happen.”
The court ruling, he said, was “a little demoralising for us because we wanted to clean up a number of things”.
Asked what the government planned to do, Mr Azad said, “there is a legal recourse. There is no other way.”