The Madras high court on Thursday stayed the notifications issued by the Medical Council of India for a common national eligibility cum entrance test for admission to MBBS and PG medical courses.
Justice P. Jyothimani also ordered a notice to the Union government and MCI on the petitions filed by the state government challenging the notifications.
Additional advocate-general P. Wilson submitted that the state government had abolished the Common Entrance Test (CET) by notifying the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, which came into force from March 2007.
Since then, admissions were made based on the marks scored in the qualifying examination, he said.
Meanwhile, in respect to a petition pending before the Supreme Court, the MCI said that it was framing a fresh set of regulations for holding CET for both UG/PG medical courses.
Mr Wilson contended that the MCI issued the notifications without taking note of the objections of Tamil Nadu.
They were in contradiction to the State Act (abolishing CET), he said.
The notifications proceed as if the Central government had approved the amendment to the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education but it had not done so, he pointed out.