The Supreme Court has rejected a petition for special counselling for 1,456 NEET-PG seats.

  • June 11, 2022, 12:34 p.m.

More than 1,450 PG medical seats will remain unfilled after the Supreme Court denied petitions seeking a special stray round of counselling to allow candidates to compete for vacant seats available after the stray round of All-India Quota (AIQ).

"The process of admission and that too in medical education cannot be endless. It must end at a particular point in time. The time schedule has to be adhered to. Otherwise, it may affect medical education and public health, "a bench led by Justice MR Shah said.

No compromise

Even after eight to nine rounds of counselling, 1,456 of 40,000 seats remained vacant... There can’t be any compromise on the quality of medical education. — Supreme Court Bench

Even after eight to nine rounds of counselling, 1,456 of 40,000 seats have remained vacant. Of these, more than 1,100 seats are non-clinical seats, which every year remain vacant, the Bench noted.

The Bench, which reserved its order on the issue on Thursday after hearing arguments from petitioner doctors, the Medical Counselling Committee and the Centre, said, "There cannot be any compromise with the merit and/or quality of medical education, which may ultimately affect the public health."

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

Rajdhani delhi representative

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