Madras HC orders CBSE to award extra marks to students who took NEET in Tamil

Source – indiatoday.in

The Madras High Court today ordered the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) to award 196 marks to candidates who wrote the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Tamil.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras HC directed the central education board to award 196 marks to each NEET candidate took the medical entrance examination in Tamil after a PIL was filed demanding compensatory marks for NEET Tamil candidates.

The petition was filed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Rangarajan, stating that that 49 questions in the NEET 2018 question paper were wrongly translated in Tamil.

The court has order the CBSE to release the revised rank list within two weeks. The CBSE has suspended the medical counselling sessions until the new rank list is released.