JUDGMENT

B.N. MAHAPATRA, J. : This writ petition has been filed with a prayer for quashing Clause-F of the New Odisha Prospectus and Clause-2 of the Public Notice dated 03.10.2012 issued by the National Board of Examination and for a direction to the opposite parties to consider the petitioner for selection in the State Quota Merit List of Odisha.

2.Petitioner’s case in a nut-shell is that National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (for short ‘NEET-2013’) is a qualifying-cum-ranking examination notified under the provisions of Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 by the Medical Council of India with prior approval of Government of India. It is governed by the National Board of Examination (for short ‘NBE’) which came into existence in October, 2012 to conduct the Postgraduate Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Examination in order to select the candidates for the Postgraduate (Medical) seats for the year 2013-14. Since NEET-PG is the new mode of conducting entrance examination for prospective PG Medical/Dental candidates a lot of queries were put forward by candidates with regard t