bill no 24 of  2008 the entrance examinations (abolition) bill, 2008 bydr r senthil, mp a billto provide for abolition of entrance examinations in admission to institutions offering higher educationbe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the entrance examinations (abolition)  act, 2008(2) it extends to the whole of indiashort title, extent and commencement5(3) it shall come into force at oncedefinitions2  in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:—10(a) "entrance examination" means any pre-admission test including a written or an oral test or both conducted for the purpose of enrolment or admission of a candidate to an academic or professional course of study imparted by an institution of higher education;(b) "institution of higher education" means an institution or a college includinga professional college recognized by or affiliated with any university or a body or established by or under a statute of the central government or the state government, as the case may be, for imparting education and awarding degree after senior secondary level school education in any discipline including natural science, medicine, engineering, law, commerce, management, social science or any other professional course; and(c) "qualifying examination" means passing of senior secondary examination or such other examination, the passing of which makes a candidate eligible for admission to any course of study in an institution of higher education5abolition of entrance examinations3 (1) on and from such date as the central government may, by notification in theofficial gazette appoint, no institution of higher education shall conduct any entrance examination for admission of candidates to any course of study(2) the admission to all institutions of higher education shall be made exclusively onthe basis of marks or percentage of marks or grade, as the case may be, obtained by candidates in the qualifying examination10act to have overriding effect4 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistenttherewith contained in any other law for the time being in force but save as aforesaid, the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other law, for the time being in force15power to remove difficulty5 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the centralgovernment may make such order or give such direction, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as appears to it to be necessary or expedient for the removal of the difficultypower to make rules6 (1) the government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules forcarrying out the purposes of this act20 25(2) every order and every rule made by the central government under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthese days, the selection of candidates to higher educational institutions—whether government or private—like medical, engineering, law or teacher training institutions or other institutions of professional education are based on entrance examinationsthe entrance examinations need specialized coaching and training which are not available in rural areas hence, entrance examinations give an advantage to urban students some of the entrance examinations include general knowledge questions and the poor rural students do not have access to the latest happenings and are not able to answer these questions this virtually eliminates the rural students from the competition for entry to higher educational institutionsindian students study different syllabuses some syllabuses like the syllabuses for central board of school examinations are different and larger and contain more subjects than the state examination board syllabuses hence, the students studying under the state syllabuses which are mostly students of rural origin, are at a disadvantageous positionall these factors have made entrance examinations a hurdle for the rural and poor students to enter higher educational institutions to eliminate this disadvantage, it is important to abolish entrance examinations to institutions of higher educationhence this billnew delhi;r senthilfebruary 18, 2008 memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 6 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this billas the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— a billto provide for abolition of entrance examinations in admission to institutions offering higher education————(dr r senthil, mp)mgipmrnd—635ls(s-5)—04032008