A case for reviving NEET
Guest article by S Vaidhyasubramaniam In the judicial Waterloo at the Supreme Court (SC), the Medical Council of India’s one-stop solution National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was neatly laid to rest. Some mourn. Some celebrate. I mournfully celebrate; celebrate the reinforcement of private institutions’ right but mourn for the opportunity lost. The ageless rhetoric of rural-urban divide and the legal weaponry that drilled the constitutional armoury ensured the SC missed the opportunity to streamline the admission chaos. SC’s puritan legal discipline failed to check the medical college admission indiscipline. Justice V R Krishna Iyer in State of Kerala vs T P Roshana (1979 AIR 765) defined the karuna of the law. He wrote, “The rule of law should not petrify life or be inflexibly mulish. It is tempered by experience, mellowed by principled compromise, informed by the anxiety to avoid injustice and softens the blow within the marginal limits of legality. That is the