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Medical Admission

Agitation called off on assurance

Staff Correspondent
Students willing to enrol at medical and dental colleges called off their demonstrations yesterday on the health minister's assurances that an admission test this year would be held for enrolment like previous years.
However, two writ petitions against the government
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FROM PAGE 20 decision not to hold any admission test have to be withdrawn, said AFM Ruhal Haque, the health minister, after a meeting with students at the Secretariat.
The demonstrators welcomed the decision to hold the test at a press conference held at Madhu's Canteen at Dhaka University yesterday.
The government on August 12 decided that students would be enrolled at medical and dental colleges based on SSC and HSC examination results and without any admission test.
Eunus Ali Akond, a Supreme Court lawyer, and Mizanur Rahman, father of an admission seeker, last month filed two separate writ petitions with the High Court, challenging the legality of the government's August 12 decision.
Lawyers for the two writ petitioners said they would not withdraw the petitions until the government issues a circular for enrolling students by holding a test.
A spokesperson for the demonstrators, Mominul Islam, at the press conference said, “We talked to the writ petitioner [Eunus] and he told us he would withdraw the petition today.”
If the health minister had told us earlier that the idea of results-based enrolment was a government
proposal and not a formal decision, we would not have taken to the streets, Mominul added.
He said the government would circulate medical admission forms as soon as the writ petitions are withdrawn.
However, if the petitions are not withdrawn, the government would abide by the directives of the HC, he added.
Following the writ petitions, the HC on August 14 and 27 issued two separate rules upon the government to explain why its August 12 decision should not be declared illegal.
Besides, on August 27, a two-judge HC bench passed a split order on the petition filed by Eunus Ali seeking its directives on the government to immediately start the admission process at medical and dental colleges by holding a test.
Justice Qamrul Islam Siddiqui, senior judge of an HC bench, directed the authorities concerned to immediately start the admission process, while junior judge of the bench Justice Md Ashraful Kamal rejected the petition.
The HC bench will now send the petition along with the orders to the chief justice for a decision, and the chief justice will refer the matter to another bench for its disposal.