Delhi High Court stays CBSE's notification on upper age limit

In a major relief to the medical aspirants, the Delhi High Court has stayed the CBSE's notification on upper age limit and other criteria for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

Earlier, CBSE had issued notification laying down eligibility conditions, including upper age limit of 25 years and 30 years for general and reserved categories respectively, to apply for MBBS course.

According to the media reports, two MBBS aspirants from Kerala had filed a petition challenging the decision for Medical Council of India to set an upper age limit.

The order was passed by a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar on several petitions moved by medical aspirants who are aggrieved by various other eligibility norms which bar them from



applying for NEET-UG for which the last date for submitting the application is on March 9.

If the media reports are to be believed the plea has asserted that the CBSE's decision was against the Supreme Court direction which had said that there should not be any age limit for NEET.

Under the CBSE notification, candidates who have studied in open school, students who have had biology as an additional subject, those who have taken more than two years to complete their 11th and 12th and students who have studied privately were not eligible to apply for the exam.

The court, while passing its interim order, made it clear that while the candidates are allowed to submit their application for the entrance exam, it does not mean that they can sit for it.