CET to be mandatory for PG medical courses from 2015

State Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jaynarayan Vyas told The Indian Express: “In response to the PIL filed by the parents’ association with the HC a few months ago,the state government has decided that CET will be held from 2015 onwards. The government has decided to do so as the students,who have enrolled for the MBBS course in the current academic session,will have enough time to prepare for CET when they become eligible for it after four years.”

In 2008,the state government had made a resolution that admission to PG courses would be regulated by CET and that there would be a single window system. But,the government and the universities did not implement it,which is why the parents’ association filed a PIL demanding that the institutes should not hold separate entrance test. In reply to this PIL,the state government had in June last year,told the court that a report in this regard prepared by a committee headed by Kanubhai Kalsaria was under consideration.

Following this,a three-member committee was set up by the state government to go through the Dr Kanubhai Kalsaria Committee report on CET.

The members of the committee were Dr M F Shaikh,head of the Plastic Surgery department,B J Medical College; Dr Bharat Shah,dean of B J Medical College; and Dr J G Buch from Rajkot’s PDU Medical College. It was suggested that the entrance be held in Gujarat University.