CHENNAI: The Madras Excessive Court docket on Tuesday directed the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) to determine satisfactory/extra variety of NEET examination centres in Tamil Nadu to allow college students seem for the qualifying examination within the state itself, for the subsequent educational yr. The primary bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Banerjee gave a route to this impact whereas disposing of a public curiosity writ petition from advocate Veerapillai Ramesh of Tiruvennainallur in Villupuram district.

In keeping with the petitioner, the NTA on February 23 invited on-line functions from the scholars to jot down the NEET for admission in medical programs for 2021-22.

As many as 255 examination centres had been recognized all through the nation. Of them, Tamil Nadu was allotted 28 and Puducherry one. Inside a couple of hours it was declared that each one the 29 centres have been full.

Difficult this, the petitioner filed the current petition for a route to the NTA to determine extra examination centres within the state.

Disposing of the identical, the judges directed the NTA to determine extra variety of examination centres within the state from the subsequent educational yr, as any such route for the current yr at this stage would create pointless confusion within the minds of the scholars.