'Reservation not fundamental right': SC refuses to hear pleas by TN parties demanding 50% quota for OBCs in medical colleges
4 years, 9 months ago

'Reservation not fundamental right': SC refuses to hear pleas by TN parties demanding 50% quota for OBCs in medical colleges

Firstpost  

The matter came up before the apex court as various political parties challenged the Centre’s decision not to grant 50 percent reservation to OBCs as per Tamil Nadu law in medical seats. Reservation is not a fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution of India, observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while dismissing a clutch of petitions regarding 50 percent reservation for OBCs in medical seats in Tamil Nadu. The matter came up before the apex court as various political parties challenged the Centre’s decision not to grant 50 percent reservation to OBCs as per Tamil Nadu’s law on medical seats surrendered by the state in the All India Quota for under graduate, post graduate and dental courses in 2020-21. The party also sought direction for calling of the records of the respondent pertaining to the Result of NEET-PG, 2020 published on 9 May, 2020 by the National Board of Examinations relating to the filling up of the All India Quota and quashing of the same The ruling AIADMK had alleged that there was no rational basis for not extending the benefit of 50 percent reservation for OBCs, as envisaged under the State laws of Tamil Nadu, to the State-captured seats in the All India Quota.

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ED searches medical colleges over NRI quota admission scam
2 weeks ago

ED searches medical colleges over NRI quota admission scam

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted searches in at least three private medical colleges of Odisha over alleged irregularities in non-resident Indian quota admissions. The searches in Odisha were part of an investigation into alleged manipulation of NRI quota admissions involving substantial financial transactions and fraudulent documentation, said the sources. Sources said private medical colleges and universities reserve 5 …

Telangana to hike BC reservations to 42 per cent
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana to hike BC reservations to 42 per cent

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The state government is set to allocate 42% of the seats in local bodies, education and employment for Backward Classes, and also enhance reservations for SCs and STs, taking the total reservations for various sections to around 66-67%. A highly placed source confided to TNIE that the state government has proposed to increase reservations for BCs to 42% in …

DC Edit | Med seats: SC to upset balance
1 month, 2 weeks ago

DC Edit | Med seats: SC to upset balance

Deccan Chronicle  

India has all the diversities a country can imagine and the founders of this nation were eminently mindful of this reality. Instead of ignoring or forcibly filling those possible fault lines, they created ways and means within the democratic framework for an organic process to develop and forge a fraternity that shall help Indians negotiate the differences and work for …

Tamil Nadu to Appeal Scrapping of Domicile-Based Quota
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu to Appeal Scrapping of Domicile-Based Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: A revision petition would soon be filed to appeal against the Supreme Court’s contention that domicile-based reservation in PG medical seats was unconstitutional as the removal of the 50 per cent quota for students from Tamil Nadu in MD, MS and postgraduate diploma courses would deprive 1207 students of their opportunities to pursue higher education in medicine and surgery, …

T.N. govt. to file review petition against SC verdict on residence-based quota in PG medical courses
1 month, 2 weeks ago

T.N. govt. to file review petition against SC verdict on residence-based quota in PG medical courses

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government will soon file a review petition against the Supreme Court ruling that residence-based reservation in postgraduate medical courses was “unconstitutionally impermissible,” after consulting legal experts, Health Minister Ma. Of this, 50% seats have been reserved for students of Tamil Nadu, benefiting nearly 1,200 students,” he said. A review petition will be filed against this ruling on …

NEET PG: SC declares domicile-based reservation unconstitutional
1 month, 2 weeks ago

NEET PG: SC declares domicile-based reservation unconstitutional

India Today  

In NEET PG, the domicile-based reservation for admissions to various medical courses under the state quota has been turned unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which refers to the right to quality under Article 14, that guarantees equality for all. A three-judge bench, including justices Hrishikesh Roy, Sudhanshu Dhulia, and SVN Bhatti, delivered a judgement striking at the practice and highlighting …

Mixed views on SC quashing down domicile quota in medical PG admissions
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mixed views on SC quashing down domicile quota in medical PG admissions

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Quashing of the domicile-based quota in postgraduate medical admissions, the Supreme Court judgement on Wednesday created ripples among medical fraternity, garnering mixed views on the issues. Some states attempted to reserve seats as domiciled quota within the state quota based on domicile of candidates, such as Haryana. The court now has called the domicile-based reservation within the state quota …

SC ruling on residence-based reservation in PG admissions against State’s rights: DASE
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

SC ruling on residence-based reservation in PG admissions against State’s rights: DASE

The Hindu  

With the Supreme Court ruling that residence-based reservation in post graduate medical admissions as unconstitutional, the Doctors Association for Social Equality has said that this was against the rights of the State and would affect the in-service reservation for government doctors in Tamil Nadu. Ravindranath, general secretary of DASE, said southern States including Tamil Nadu had a large number of …

Fill vacant medical seats through special conselling, convert NRI seats to general: SC to MCC
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Fill vacant medical seats through special conselling, convert NRI seats to general: SC to MCC

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court has directed the Medical Counselling Committee to conduct a special round of counselling to fill vacant medical seats for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test undergraduate courses while noting the acute shortage of doctors in India. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan further directed that the vacant NRI seats would also be converted into the …

Linguistic Minority Medical Colleges Bound By NMC's 50% PG-Seat Sharing Rule, Ensures Implementation Of Reservation Policies: Madras HC
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Linguistic Minority Medical Colleges Bound By NMC's 50% PG-Seat Sharing Rule, Ensures Implementation Of Reservation Policies: Madras HC

Live Law  

The Madras High Court has recently made it clear that linguistic minority self financing medical colleges are bound by the National Medical Council's 50% seat sharing rule. The court noted that though the specific seat sharing clause was not present in the 2023 Regulation, the new Regulation provided for extending reservation benefits for the deserving candidates. The court also noted …

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Documents of students who got medical seats under NRI quota to be verified by embassies

The Hindu  

For the first time, the Karnataka Examination Authority has decided to send the details and documents of 320 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the Non-Resident Indian quota to the respective embassies for cross-verification. This decision comes after KEA discovered irregularities involving 21 students who secured postgraduate medical seats under the management quota in the All India Quota while …

‘Linguistic minority colleges bound by NMC’s PG education reservation rule’: Madras HC
3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Linguistic minority colleges bound by NMC’s PG education reservation rule’: Madras HC

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Madras HC has held that private linguistic minority medical colleges are bound by the provision of the Post-Graduate Medical Education Reservations, 2023 issued by the National Medical Commission and the agreements made with the government to reserve PG medical seats for the government quota as per the applicable laws of the state or union territory. The court dismissed …

Plea Against Silence on EWS Quota in Medical Seats
6 months, 1 week ago

Plea Against Silence on EWS Quota in Medical Seats

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Kamareddy BJP MLA Katipally Venkata Ramana Reddy filed a petition before the Telangana High Court seeking directions to the Union and state governments to issue guidelines or amendments to GOs of rules for admissions into MBBS, BDS and PG Medical courses for the academic year 2024-25 by implementing EWS reservations. He complained that despite the communication addressed by the …

NMC withdraws nod for private med college, TN loses 100 seats
6 months, 2 weeks ago

NMC withdraws nod for private med college, TN loses 100 seats

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The last-minute notice by the National Medical Commission about the withdrawal of permission to 100 MBBS seats in the new Kanniyakumari Madras Medical Mission Research Centre has put the state government in a fix. The 100 seats in the college comprise 60 government quota seats, 30 management and five under the 7.5% quota. The selection committee said that since …

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box
7 months, 1 week ago

In Tamil Nadu, data on quota is a Pandora’s Box

The Hindu  

Politics over reservation in education and public employment is nothing new to Tamil Nadu. The question over the data has been addressed partially through the publication of the State Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department’s reply to a query under the RTI on the representation of Vanniyars and the rest within the exclusive 20% quota for MBC-DNCs …

Reservation redistribution
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Reservation redistribution

Hindustan Times  

The gains of reservation — despite its goal of driving equity — have flowed unequally. Relative social privilege and political clout have led to a few groups enjoying almost all the benefits of reservations while others languish in backwardness that is largely unchanged since Independence. To illustrate, the Jatavs in Uttar Pradesh and the Mahars in Maharashtra have long been …

T.N. to surrender 851 medical and 38 dental seats to central pool
7 months, 2 weeks ago

T.N. to surrender 851 medical and 38 dental seats to central pool

The Hindu  

This year the State will surrender 851 MBBS seats to the central pool for which the Directorate General of Medical Services will conduct counselling. There will be four rounds of online counselling, including the stray round, for admission to seats under the government quota in government medical colleges and seats surrendered to self-financing colleges, ESIC Medical College, KK Nagar, affiliated …

Karnataka government fixes 20% B.Sc nursing seats as management quota
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka government fixes 20% B.Sc nursing seats as management quota

The Hindu  

The State government has fixed 20% B.Sc. The government has allowed 80% of seats of B.Sc courses in private nursing colleges to be filled through CET counselling by the Karnataka Examinations Authority, while the remaining 20% will be filled by the colleges under management quota. Legal action will be taken against colleges charging more than the prescribed fee.” This year, …

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education
8 months ago

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR : Former Union minister Srikant Jena and ex-Congress MP Anant Prasad Sethi on Sunday said the government should revise the reservation quota for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in higher education in Odisha from 2024-25 academic year. In a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, the Congress leaders said in 2015, the state government had announced that reservation …

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Medical Aspirants in a Fix as Uncertainty Lingers over Competent Authority Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With the NEET results having been declared, students' anticipation of securing admissions to medical colleges in the state is high. As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, students of Andhra Pradesh were eligible to apply for 15% seats in the unreserved category in medical colleges in Telangana and vice-versa for TG students. In retaliation, the Andhra Pradesh government …

NCBC recommends increase in reservation quota for OBCs in West Bengal, Punjab
10 months ago

NCBC recommends increase in reservation quota for OBCs in West Bengal, Punjab

The Hindu  

The National Commission for Backward Classes has recommended an increase in the reservation quota for Other Backward Classes in public employment in Punjab and West Bengal. Reservation quota for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes is 22%, 6% and 17% respectively in respect of services and posts under the control of West Bengal in establishments run or aided …

Cap on medical seats: State demands permanent rollback of policy
1 year, 4 months ago

Cap on medical seats: State demands permanent rollback of policy

The Hindu  

The State government has opposed the National Medical Commission’s decision to defer guidelines for cap on medical seats in the States by a year and has demanded that the policy be rolled back permanently. NMC in August earlier this year notified guidelines which capped the medical seats in a State at 100 seats per 10 lakh population. The Government of …

T.N. seeks special counselling to fill vacant MBBS seats
1 year, 5 months ago

T.N. seeks special counselling to fill vacant MBBS seats

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian has written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, urging him to permit the State to conduct another round of counselling for vacancies in undergraduate medical seats for the current academic year. The State government has filled MBBS seats under the State quota in government medical colleges and also government quota seats in self-financing medical …

National Medical Commission limits MBBS seats in each state to 100 per million population
1 year, 5 months ago

National Medical Commission limits MBBS seats in each state to 100 per million population

Hindustan Times  

To improve the overall quality of education and to provide the right teaching environment to medical students, the National Medical Commission decided to limit the undergraduate seats in each state. According to the NMC, the decision has been applauded by various state branches of IMA, students’ associations, and the medical fraternity in general. According to a press release by the …

'15% Seats Reserved For Non-Locals': Telangana High Court Dismisses Pleas Challenging 100% Domicile Reservation In State Medical Colleges
1 year, 6 months ago

'15% Seats Reserved For Non-Locals': Telangana High Court Dismisses Pleas Challenging 100% Domicile Reservation In State Medical Colleges

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court on Monday dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the State's decision to reserve 100% seats in MBBS and BDS admissions under the 'Competent Authority Quota' for locals in 36 state colleges established after June 2, 2014. the instant case is not a case of 100% reservation as only 85% of competent authority quota seats in respect …

Medical Admissions | Fixing Number Of Seats In State Quota Policy Decision Of Govt, Students Have No Right To Seek Such Direction: Gujarat HC
1 year, 6 months ago

Medical Admissions | Fixing Number Of Seats In State Quota Policy Decision Of Govt, Students Have No Right To Seek Such Direction: Gujarat HC

Live Law  

While observing that it is the prerogative of the State government to determine the number of seats available for MBBS courses under the State quota, the Gujarat High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking a direction upon the authorities to augment the number of seats in Gujarat. Justice Kariel asserted, “A student, while would be entitled to approach this …

MBBS : Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With 100% Reservation For Local Candidates In 'Competent Authority Quota' In Telangana; Says HC Can Consider
1 year, 6 months ago

MBBS : Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With 100% Reservation For Local Candidates In 'Competent Authority Quota' In Telangana; Says HC Can Consider

Live Law  

The current batch of petitioners, who approached the Supreme Court, claimed that they possessed better NEET scores and All-India ranks than those six candidates who were granted relief by the Telangana High Court. Background In July, the State of Telangana issued an order eliminating its earlier 15 per cent unreserved quota for admissions in medical colleges established in the state …

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court
1 year, 6 months ago

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday reiterated that students who take admission in All India Quota seats for Post Graduate medical courses cannot vacate the seats after the second round of counselling for AIQ seats in National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test.The Court referred to the order passed in May 2017 in the case Dar-Us-Slam Educational Trust v Medical Council of India. The Supreme …

Association demands new law on PG admission quota for in-service doctors
1 year, 7 months ago

Association demands new law on PG admission quota for in-service doctors

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association has urged the State government to take a policy decision and pass a separate law with regard to 50% reservation for in-service candidates in postgraduate medical admissions. In a statement, the association said that every year, private doctors were approaching courts challenging a Government Order that granted reservation for in-service doctors and incentive marks …

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission
1 year, 7 months ago

Puducherry Cabinet recommends 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission

The Hindu  

The Puducherry Cabinet has recommended 10% reservation for NEET-qualified government school students in medical admission from this academic year in the Union Territory. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Monday has decided to provide 10% reservation for government school students in MBBS, BDS and BAMS courses. The implementation of quota system will help 11 NEET-qualified government …

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education
1 year, 8 months ago

Pvt. college appeals for ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy’ to offer free medical education

The Hindu  

A private college in Karnataka has appealed to the government for a new ‘special free of cost admission reservation policy,’ under which students will be given free medical education on condition that they work for five years at the same institute after completion of the course. The Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research of Sathya Sai Grama, …

Over 40,000 applications received for MBBS, BDS seats in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 8 months ago

Over 40,000 applications received for MBBS, BDS seats in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

A total of 40,199 applications have been received for MBBS, BDS seats offered under single window counselling in the State for medical and dental colleges under the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University. As many as 26,805 candidates have applied for government quota seats and another 13,394 candidates have applied for management quota seats. This year the Directorate of Medical …

Telangana Govt to Scrap Unreserved Quota
1 year, 8 months ago

Telangana Govt to Scrap Unreserved Quota

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: As many as 520 additional medical seats would be made available to Telangana students from this academic year thanks to the state government’s decision to scrap 15 per cent “unreserved” category for which students from Andhra and Rayalaseema had been allowed, till now. Earlier, he brought 85 per cent quota for locals in the B category seats in private …

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee
1 year, 9 months ago

Karnataka won’t help merit students secure 50% seats in private medical colleges at govt fee

The Hindu  

The directive of the National Medical Commission to fix the fee for 50% of seats in private medical colleges and deemed-to-be-universities on par with government seats is yet to be implemented in Karnataka despite multiple recommendations by the Fee Regulatory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by Justice Subash Adi. The committee has recommended to the Karnataka government to adopt these …

Odisha Cabinet Approves Decision to Add 22 New Castes to State OBC List
2 years, 1 month ago

Odisha Cabinet Approves Decision to Add 22 New Castes to State OBC List

The Quint  

How much reservation do OBCs get in Odisha? However, whenever the government has tried to raise the quota, it has been struck down by the courts for crossing the 50% ceiling of total reservation set by the Supreme Court in the 1993 Indra Sawhney judgment. For example, Orissa High Court had struck down the Odisha Reservation of Posts and Services …

NEET-SS : Supreme Court Allows Tamil Nadu Govt To Implement 50% In-Service Quota In Super Speciality Seats For Current Academic Year
2 years, 3 months ago

NEET-SS : Supreme Court Allows Tamil Nadu Govt To Implement 50% In-Service Quota In Super Speciality Seats For Current Academic Year

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Tamil Nadu government to reserve 50 per cent of super speciality seats available in the current academic year in government medical colleges for NEET-qualified in-service doctors in accordance with a 2020 government order, the validity of which is currently under challenge before the top court. The present Division Bench led by Justice Gavai …

Upholding EWS quota may seal the fate of the challenge to Tamil Nadu quota law without a hearing: Justice Bhat’s note of caution
2 years, 4 months ago

Upholding EWS quota may seal the fate of the challenge to Tamil Nadu quota law without a hearing: Justice Bhat’s note of caution

The Hindu  

Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, who authored the minority view on the Constitution Bench, said upholding the Economically Weaker Section quota will run the danger of “sealing the fate” of a pending challenge to the 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu without the benefit of a hearing. Lalit said the creation of 10% EWS reservation over and above 50% existing quota has …

TS students to get 85% quota in B seats in Pvt MBBS, BDS colleges
2 years, 5 months ago

TS students to get 85% quota in B seats in Pvt MBBS, BDS colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In good news for Telangana students, the health department reserved 85 per cent of ‘B’ category or management quota seats in private medical colleges for merit students. The health department issued GOs 129 and 130 to amend the admission rules to facilitate this, The state has 20 non-minority and four minority private medical colleges which offer 3,750 seats. The …

Medical Education : Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Challenging NMC Direction For Govt Fee In 50% Private Colleges & Deemed Universities Seats
2 years, 6 months ago

Medical Education : Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Challenging NMC Direction For Govt Fee In 50% Private Colleges & Deemed Universities Seats

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice in a petition challenging the validity of the National Medical Commission's decision stipulating that the fee of 50% seats in Private Medical Colleges & Deemed Universities should be at par with the fee in the Government Medical Colleges in that State and Union Territory. Last week, the Kerala High Court held …

Medical Admissions : Supreme Court Approves 50-50 Seat Sharing Agreement Between CMC Vellore & TN Govt As "Just & Fair"
2 years, 6 months ago

Medical Admissions : Supreme Court Approves 50-50 Seat Sharing Agreement Between CMC Vellore & TN Govt As "Just & Fair"

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has approved the seat-sharing formula free agreed by the Christian Medical College at Vellore and the State of Tamil Nadu for sharing the MBBS and PG medical seats among themselves on 50-50 basis. The terms of the seat sharing agreement are as follows : For the Undergraduate MBBS Course a) 50% of the seats shall be filled …

OBC Quota In Maharashtra Local Body Polls : Supreme Court Says Suggestions Of Backward Classes Commission Can't Be Accommodated After Election Process Has Been Notified
2 years, 8 months ago

OBC Quota In Maharashtra Local Body Polls : Supreme Court Says Suggestions Of Backward Classes Commission Can't Be Accommodated After Election Process Has Been Notified

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, made it abundantly clear that suggestions of the Commission appointed by the Maharashtra Government to ascertain the extent of OBC reservation required to be provided in its local bodies elections cannot be accommodated for the areas for which the election programme has already been notified. Pursuant to the said report of the dedicated Commission, the …

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls
2 years, 10 months ago

OBC reservation in India: History, state-wise quota, legal challenges, tussle for local body polls

The Hindu  

The story so far: Last week, the Maharashtra government had a setback when the Supreme Court directed the State to release the schedule for local civic polls across the state within two weeks, upholding its stay on reservations for Other Backward Classes. Local body elections in Maharashtra have been on hold since the apex Court stayed the 27 per cent …

Why NRI/Management medical seats in Karnataka are staying vacant
2 years, 10 months ago

Why NRI/Management medical seats in Karnataka are staying vacant

Hindustan Times  

In a shocking reveal, the Department of Medical Education's data has showed that a major portion of medical seats under the NRI/management quota have no takers in Karnataka. However, of the four quotas available in private medical colleges, government, private, management and NRI, the government and private quota seats are said to get filled up quickly. That makes up an …

Supreme Court permits Tamil Nadu to allocate 50 pc super-speciality medical seats to in-service candidates
3 years ago

Supreme Court permits Tamil Nadu to allocate 50 pc super-speciality medical seats to in-service candidates

India TV News  

Highlights SC refused to stay its decision allocating 50% super-specialty seats in govt medical colleges The bench permitted state govt to continue providing 50% quota for in-service candidates It then ordered a listing of batch of petitions for further hearing after Holi vacation from Mar 1 In a major victory for Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to …

Milestone in social justice: Supreme Court verdict upholds OBC reservation in all-India medical seats quota
3 years, 1 month ago

Milestone in social justice: Supreme Court verdict upholds OBC reservation in all-India medical seats quota

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgment on January 20, 2022, in Neil Aurelio & Ors vs Union of India and Ors, upholding the constitutional validity of 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes in the All India Quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses. Every political party that assumed power in Tamil Nadu …

'Reservation not at odds with merit': SC upholds validity of OBC quota in NEET admissions
3 years, 2 months ago

'Reservation not at odds with merit': SC upholds validity of OBC quota in NEET admissions

Firstpost  

The top court said that examinations are not a proxy for merit and merit should be socially contextualised and re-conceptualised as an institution towards equality that we as a society value The Supreme Court on Thursday, upholding the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test All India Quota seats, said that merit cannot …

Supreme Court upholds validity of OBC quota in NEET admissions
3 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court upholds validity of OBC quota in NEET admissions

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of quota for Other Backward Classes candidates in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test’s All India Quota seats for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses,noting that “reservation is not at odds with merit” in open competitive examinations. It is not tenable for the States to provide reservation in the AIQ seats …

SC approves 27% OBC quota in NEET
3 years, 2 months ago

SC approves 27% OBC quota in NEET

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Constitutional validity of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in All India Quota seats for admission in post-graduate and undergraduate medical courses in government-run medical colleges. Pointing to chapter-II of the information bulletin issued for NEET PG AIQ seats that specifically states that the “reservation applicable to NEET-PG would be notified …

NEET PG- Postgraduate Admissions Must Be Completely Merit-Based, Reservation Must Be Minimal: Shyam Divan To Supreme Court
3 years, 2 months ago

NEET PG- Postgraduate Admissions Must Be Completely Merit-Based, Reservation Must Be Minimal: Shyam Divan To Supreme Court

Live Law  

In connection with the EWS/OBC reservation in NEET-AIQ, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan, on Wednesday, told the Supreme Court that Postgraduate admissions must be completely merit-based and reservation must be minimal. For example, specialised sophisticated knowledge and skill and ability to make right choices of treatment in critical medical conditions and even ability to innovate and device new lines of treatment …

Supreme Court Stays 27 Percent OBC Quota in Maharashtra Civic Polls
3 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Stays 27 Percent OBC Quota in Maharashtra Civic Polls

The Quint  

The top court further added: "As a result, the State Election Commission shall desist from proceeding with the Election Programme already notified in respect of reserved seats for 'OBC category only', in the concerned local bodies." The bench said the election programme in respect of all the local bodies across the state in respect of reserved seats for the category …

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