SC asks states/UTs to decide on plea seeking to conduct yatras on poll awareness
The bench was told that such orders prohibit all kinds of assemblies, meetings and demonstrations during the duration of elections.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to include Urdu as language in National Eligibility cum Entrance test (NEET) exam from academic session 2018-19 onward.
"We direct the Centre to include Urdu as a language in NEET examination from academic session 2018-19 onward," the top court bench said.
Earlier, the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) had filed a plea requesting the top court to include Urdu as a language in NEET 2017. Since last year, state governments have also been requesting the Centre to include regional languages.
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The Centre had told the top court it was not feasible to introduce Urdu as one of the mediums for the NEET from the current academic year.
At present, NEET is being conducted in 10 languages — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telegu, Tamil and Kannada languages.
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