Half-Baked Doctors Cannot Be Left Loose On Society; Permitting Unequipped Medical Colleges To Impart Substandard Medical Education Dangerous : SC [Read Judgment]
6 years, 4 months ago

Half-Baked Doctors Cannot Be Left Loose On Society; Permitting Unequipped Medical Colleges To Impart Substandard Medical Education Dangerous : SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

‘It would be dangerous and against the right to life itself, in case unequipped medical colleges are permitted to impart substandard medical education without proper facilities and infrastructure.’While cancelling admissions made to four self-financing medical colleges in Kerala, the Supreme Court has observed that permitting unequipped colleges to impart substandard medical education. ‘It would be dangerous and against the right to life itself, in case unequipped medical colleges are permitted to impart substandard medical education without proper facilities and infrastructure.’ While cancelling admissions made to four self-financing medical colleges in Kerala, the Supreme Court has observed that permitting unequipped colleges to impart substandard medical education without proper facilities and infrastructure, would be dangerous and affect right to life itself. It would be against the efficacious medical education and would amount to permit the unequipped medical college to impart medical education without proper infrastructure and faculty, patients serve as the object of teaching by such an approach ultimately interest of the society would suffer and half-baked doctors cannot be left loose on society like drones and parasites to deal with the life of patients in the absence of proper educational training, the bench comprising Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Vineet Saran said while quashing high court judgment. The Kerala High Court had quashed the order passed by the Government of India declining to grant renewal permission/recognition to four private medical colleges.

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Kerala University Laws (Amendment), Private Universities Bills spark heated debate
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Kerala University Laws (Amendment), Private Universities Bills spark heated debate

The Hindu  

The Kerala State Private Universities Bill, 2025 and Kerala University Laws Bill, 2025, were referred to the Subject Committee by the Assembly on Monday, following discussions that lasted nearly three hours. Mr. Satheesan also described the Kerala State Private Universities Bill, 2025, as highly opaque and called for it to be referred to the Select Committee for more comprehensive discussions. …

Tamil Nadu to file review plea after Supreme Court strikes down domicile-based reservations for PG medical courses
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu to file review plea after Supreme Court strikes down domicile-based reservations for PG medical courses

Live Mint  

agenciThe Tamil Nadu government has said it will file a review petition in the Supreme Court on the domicile-based reservation for post-graduate medical courses. A three-judge bench comprising Justices Hrishikesh Roy, Sudhanshu Dhulia, and SVN Bhatti said that state quota seats must be filled based on merit in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test exam. The top court held that …

Tamil Nadu to Appeal Scrapping of Domicile-Based Quota
1 month, 3 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, …

Domicile-Based Quota in PG Medicine Illegal: SC
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Domicile-Based Quota in PG Medicine Illegal: SC

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday in a significant verdict held that domicile-based reservations in PG Medical seats are unconstitutional for being violative of Article 14 of the Constitution which deals with the right to equality. The apex court noted that some degree of domicile-based reservation in undergraduate courses after NEET-UG might be permissible and it categorically stated that …

Domicile quota scrapped: SC orders NEET merit-based admissions for PG Medical courses
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Domicile quota scrapped: SC orders NEET merit-based admissions for PG Medical courses

Live Mint  

NEET PG Admission: In a landmark ruling on January 29, the Supreme Court of India declared domicile-based reservations for postgraduate medical courses unconstitutional, stating that such practices violate Article 14 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to equality. A three-judge bench comprising Justices Hrishikesh Roy, Sudhanshu Dhulia, and SVN Bhatti asserted that state quota seats must be filled solely …

Medical education in India is at a crossroads; here’s a road map
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Medical education in India is at a crossroads; here’s a road map

The Hindu  

The Indian government replaced a system — the Medical Council of India, which was regulating medical education and practice for over eight decades — due to allegations of inefficiency and corruption. The past decade alone has seen a rapid increase in new medical colleges leading to increased MBBS seats from 64,464 to 1,15,812 seats and PG seats from 31,185 to …

Courts Should Exercise Caution Before Passing Interim Orders Directing Colleges To Keep Seat Vacant : Supreme Court
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Courts Should Exercise Caution Before Passing Interim Orders Directing Colleges To Keep Seat Vacant : Supreme Court

Live Law  

Coming to the aid of two medical colleges, which were directed to keep a medical seat vacant pursuant to a High Court order but incurred loss as the said seat ultimately remained unfilled, the Supreme Court recently paved way for monetary restitution through adjustment of the colleges' proposed fees for successive batches. "considering that it is a case of one …

AP: Demand to rollback of the decision to privatise the new medical colleges
6 months, 1 week ago

AP: Demand to rollback of the decision to privatise the new medical colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Former minister Vidadala Rajini has condemned the Telugu Desam alliance government’s decision on the privatisation of newly established medical colleges, calling it a “big scam” involving large-scale corruption and conspiracy. She demanded an immediate rollback of the decision to privatise the new medical colleges, urging the government not to destroy the aspirations of poor students. Jagan Mohan Reddy, had …

Andhra Pradesh government comes under fire after it decided not to launch Pulivendula Medical College this year
6 months, 1 week ago

Andhra Pradesh government comes under fire after it decided not to launch Pulivendula Medical College this year

The Hindu  

The National Medical Commission’s withdrawal of permission for the launch of Dr. YSR Government Medical College at Pulivendula in Kadapa district for the academic year 2024-25, upon receiving a letter from the Director of Medical Education, Andhra Pradesh, stating that the college did not have the required infrastructure, drew criticism from the Congress party and student unions. She alleged that …

[Nursing College Affiliation Scam] MP High Court Paves Way For Shifting Students From 'Unsuited' College To Other Govt Colleges
7 months, 3 weeks ago

[Nursing College Affiliation Scam] MP High Court Paves Way For Shifting Students From 'Unsuited' College To Other Govt Colleges

Live Law  

In a batch of writ petitions challenging the legality of granting recognition and affiliation to nursing colleges in Madhya Pradesh, the High Court has allowed the students of an 'unsuitable' government college to be admitted in 'suitable' government colleges. Justice Rajendra Kumar Shrivastava was formed, upon the court's insistence to monitor and act upon the CBI report about deficiencies in …

[Nursing College Affiliation Scam] MP High Court Modifies Earlier Order, Allows Students Of 'Deficient', 'Unsuited' Colleges To Participate In Examinations
1 year ago

[Nursing College Affiliation Scam] MP High Court Modifies Earlier Order, Allows Students Of 'Deficient', 'Unsuited' Colleges To Participate In Examinations

Live Law  

In a relief to thousands of students who had been admitted to colleges listed as 'deficient' and 'unsuited' in a CBI Enquiry report, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has allowed them to participate in the examination for previous academic sessions. In another interim application filed by the colleges found to be 'deficient' by CBI, the High Court observed that shifting …

Kerala High Court Strikes Down Nativity Clause In Medical Officers Quota For Admission To Post-Graduate Degrees As Unconstitutional
1 year ago

Kerala High Court Strikes Down Nativity Clause In Medical Officers Quota For Admission To Post-Graduate Degrees As Unconstitutional

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court has held that a nativity clause which disqualifies non-resident medical officers from applying under the service quota of the Kerala Medical Officers' Admission to Post Graduate Courses Under Service Quota Act is invalid and unconstitutional, adding that the State cannot include any clause in the prospectus that prevents a medical officer under the Act from being. …

Medical waste | Shattered dreams of becoming doctors
1 year, 4 months ago

Medical waste | Shattered dreams of becoming doctors

The Hindu  

In 2015, Giridhar K. Sajeev secured a near perfect score in Class 12. “In 2016, Glocal used a relaxed-norms clause, which was a multi-crore bank guarantee that it would have to forfeit if the university failed to meet the basic infrastructure requirements, including that of teacher and patient strength during inspections,” says Giridhar’s father, Sajeev K. He adds that out …

Erring medical colleges to face monetary penalty soon
1 year, 5 months ago

Erring medical colleges to face monetary penalty soon

The Hindu  

The National Medical Commission’s latest announcement of introducing monetary penalty, for the first time in India, against medical colleges that fail to comply with statutory provisions, regulations, and minimum standards set by the commission could instantly reflect in an escalation to the fee structure in private medical colleges, warn experts, stating that any monetary punishment ultimately means that the student’s …

NEET PG | Students Who Take Admission In All India Quota Can't Vacate Seats After 2nd Round Of AIQ Counselling : Supreme Court
1 year, 7 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 …

Not Permissible To Dilute Time Schedule Of Medical Courses Under Article 226 In Absence Of Any Justifiable Reason: Delhi High Court
1 year, 7 months ago

Not Permissible To Dilute Time Schedule Of Medical Courses Under Article 226 In Absence Of Any Justifiable Reason: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that no dilution of the time schedule with respect to medical courses, which is mandatory and binding on all, is permissible in exercise of writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in absence of any justifiable reason.“Undoubtedly, medical education requires facilities and infrastructure of the highest standard as also the adherence. …

HC hears plea on MBBS admissions in five new medical colleges
1 year, 7 months ago

HC hears plea on MBBS admissions in five new medical colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court heard a petition filed challenging GOs 107, 108 and 111 dealing with categorisation of seats for admission into MBBS course in five new government medical colleges and posted the next hearing after two weeks. Sesha Sai held hearing here on Thursday on a petition filed by Prathipadu Prem Sajan and others challenging GOs issued …

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 …

Tamil Nadu moves SC, challenges validity of NEET
2 years, 1 month ago

Tamil Nadu moves SC, challenges validity of NEET

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination for admissions in medical courses in colleges across the nation, alleging that the single window common test is violative of the principle of federalism. The NEET is a pre-medical entrance test for admissions in undergraduate medical courses such as …

Forcing doctors to remain idle by neither offering govt jobs nor allowing private jobs is a crime, says Madras HC
2 years, 3 months ago

Forcing doctors to remain idle by neither offering govt jobs nor allowing private jobs is a crime, says Madras HC

The Hindu  

The Madras High Court has expressed concern over the Tamil Nadu Health Department neither offering government jobs to doctors who pass out of government medical colleges in order to honour their two-year bond period, nor releasing their educational certificates so that they could either pursue higher education or take up private jobs. It is high time the government evolves a …

SC quashes AP’s GO on seven-fold increase of tuition fee in private medical colleges
2 years, 4 months ago

SC quashes AP’s GO on seven-fold increase of tuition fee in private medical colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The Supreme Court has quashed an order issued by the Andhra Pradesh government enhancing the tuition fee of private medical colleges by seven times to Rs 24 lakh per annum. The tuition fee shall always be affordable.” The court said that issuing a GO enhancing tuition fee based on representations made by private medical colleges was wholly impermissible and …

Supreme Court Extends Last Date For PG Medical Admissions 2022-23 Till November 25 Allowing NMC's Plea
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court Extends Last Date For PG Medical Admissions 2022-23 Till November 25 Allowing NMC's Plea

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed an application filed by the National Medical Commission to extend the last date of admissions till November 25, 2022, for post-graduate medical courses for the academic year 2022-23 for All India Quota seats as well as Deemed & Central Universities and State Quota Seats.The extension was sought on the ground that as a result …

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 …

NMC Direction on fee cap in Private Medical Colleges not Applicable in the State: Kerala HC
2 years, 6 months ago

NMC Direction on fee cap in Private Medical Colleges not Applicable in the State: Kerala HC

News 18  

The Kerala High Court has ordered that the National Medical Commission’s decision to charge government college fees for medical courses offered by private institutions won’t be applicable in the state. Read | From Next Year, 50% Seats in Private Medical Colleges to be Offered at Govt College Fee “If the OM is directed to be enforced in such manner, it …

Private Medical Colleges Move Madras High Court Against NMC Order Stipulating Fees For 50% Seats At Par With Govt
2 years, 7 months ago

Private Medical Colleges Move Madras High Court Against NMC Order Stipulating Fees For 50% Seats At Par With Govt

Live Law  

A group of Private Medical Colleges, on Monday, challenged the constitutional validity of Section 10 of the National Medical Commission Act 2019 and an office memorandum issued pursuant to the Act by the National Medical Commission directing all private medical colleges to charge a fee equivalent to that charged by the Government in 50% seats of these institutions. Pursuant to …

Kerala High Court Temporarily Bars Self-Financing Colleges From Taking Action Against BPL Students For Non Payment Of Fee
2 years, 7 months ago

Kerala High Court Temporarily Bars Self-Financing Colleges From Taking Action Against BPL Students For Non Payment Of Fee

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Monday temporarily refrained self-financing colleges from taking any form of detrimental action against students belonging to the Below Poverty Line category merely for not paying the college fee. The students in the BPL category were recently stripped of the scholarship scheme that was previously available to them.Justice Devan Ramachandran further clarified. The Court was adjudicating …

Kerala's Idukki Medical College Gets NMC Nod for 100 MBBS Seats
2 years, 7 months ago

Kerala's Idukki Medical College Gets NMC Nod for 100 MBBS Seats

News 18  

The National Medical Commission has accorded sanction to open the government medical college in Kerala’s high range district of Idukki with the admission of 100 MBBS students, a long pending demand of the southern state. The Idukki Medical College, which began its operations during the time of the previous Congress-UDF government, had lost the then Medical Council of India recognition …

Displaced medical students to be accommodated in TS colleges
2 years, 9 months ago

Displaced medical students to be accommodated in TS colleges

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: The National Medical Commission filed an affidavit in the Telangana High Court giving approval of supernumerary seats in government medical colleges to accommodate medical students who lost admissions following its decision to cancel recognition of three medical colleges in the state. The NMC recently cancelled the recognition of three medical colleges — MNR Medical College and Hospital in Sangareddy …

Letting Seat In Super-Speciality Course Go Vacant Won't Serve Anyone's Interest: Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Doctor Seeking Admission In AIIMS
2 years, 9 months ago

Letting Seat In Super-Speciality Course Go Vacant Won't Serve Anyone's Interest: Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Doctor Seeking Admission In AIIMS

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has directed All India Institute of Medical Sciences to admit a doctor in its specialised course, namely M. Ch. The Court thus allowed the plea filed by one Dr. Mahendra Singh Rana working as a Senior Resident at the Department of Surgery, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Himachal Pradesh. The Himachal Pradesh High Court vide …

NEET Admissions: Supreme Court Reserves Orders In Plea Seeking Fresh Registration In NRI Quota In Kerala Before Mop Up Counseling
2 years, 10 months ago

NEET Admissions: Supreme Court Reserves Orders In Plea Seeking Fresh Registration In NRI Quota In Kerala Before Mop Up Counseling

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved orders in the Special Leave Petition filed by NRI students seeking time for fresh registration in the NRI quota in Kerala before commencement of the Mop-Up counseling. State Could Not Convert The Seats At Stage Of Mop Up Since They Still Had To Conduct The Round Of Stray Counseling; Question Of Seats Being Unavailed …

Medical Admissions Cancelled : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Students' Plea Challenging Medical Council Decision
2 years, 10 months ago

Medical Admissions Cancelled : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Students' Plea Challenging Medical Council Decision

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Monday, issued notice in a plea challenging the order of the Delhi High Court which had upheld that discharge orders passed by the National Medical Commission, cancelling the admission of students, alleging backdoor entry in medical college. "Colleges keep admitting students, they don't follow order of the MCI asking them to be discharged, they go to …

University unearths scam in admissions to medical PG seats
2 years, 11 months ago

University unearths scam in admissions to medical PG seats

Deccan Chronicle  

HANAMKONDA: Inquiries by Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences unveiled a loophole using which private medical colleges have been minting crores of rupees. According to university authorities, private colleges are blocking postgraduate seats saying merit and all India quota students have applied for them. While checking up the ongoing admission process, Kaloji Narayana Rao University registrar D. Praveen Kumar …

Plea in Delhi HC for nod to Ukraine-returned students to continue studies at Indian colleges
3 years ago

Plea in Delhi HC for nod to Ukraine-returned students to continue studies at Indian colleges

India Today  

A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre to facilitate the continuation of studies of Indian medical students who have returned from war-hit Ukraine in domestic colleges. The petition by Pravasi Legal Cell, likely to be listed for hearing on March 21, has demanded that the central government should permit such students to …

Why are Indian students looking at foreign universities for medical education?
3 years ago

Why are Indian students looking at foreign universities for medical education?

The Hindu  

“Wuhan is a beautiful place, you know,” says Vinod*, over the phone, as we talk about the plight of Indian medical students forced to return home two years ago after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “While high scores in the NEET exam are not what eventually make a good doctor, the exam does give an insight into the ability …

Private Medical Colleges Collecting Annual Fees In Advance Before Completion Of Current Academic Year 'Profiteering' : Kerala High Court
3 years, 2 months ago

Private Medical Colleges Collecting Annual Fees In Advance Before Completion Of Current Academic Year 'Profiteering' : Kerala High Court

Live Law  

While restraining private medical colleges in the State from collecting fees for any academic year other than the one currently being taught, the Kerala High Court has held that collecting annual fees from students for the next year in advance when the previous year's studies have not been completed by an institution would amount to "profiteering".A Division Bench of Justice …

Admission Supervisory Committee Can Take Suo Motu Action Over Self Financing Colleges Admissions: Supreme Court Upholds Kerala HC Judgment
3 years, 4 months ago

Admission Supervisory Committee Can Take Suo Motu Action Over Self Financing Colleges Admissions: Supreme Court Upholds Kerala HC Judgment

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has held that Admission Supervisory Committee in Kerala has jurisdiction to initiate proceedings suo motu in respect of admissions made by the self-financing colleges. "We are in agreement with the findings recorded by the High Court on the powers conferred on the Committee including the power of suo motu action that can be taken by the Committee …

Policy Decision Interdicting Self-Financing Institutions From Commencing New Courses In State Legally Unsustainable: Kerala High Court
3 years, 5 months ago

Policy Decision Interdicting Self-Financing Institutions From Commencing New Courses In State Legally Unsustainable: Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently established that a policy decision taken by the State to interdict self-financing institutions from commencing new courses in the State cannot stand legal scrutiny and cannot be sustainedJustice Raja Vijayaraghavan held so while directing the Directorate of Technical Education to reconsider the request for a No Objection Certificate submitted by a. The Kerala High Court …

Supreme Court Grants One Month's Time To Fee Regulatory Committee To Fix Fee Of Private Self Financing Medical Colleges In Kerala
3 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court Grants One Month's Time To Fee Regulatory Committee To Fix Fee Of Private Self Financing Medical Colleges In Kerala

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today granted 4 weeks time for the Fee Regulatory Committee for Medical Education in Kerala to consult college managements of private self-financing medical colleges for fixing "non-exploitative and reasonable" fee from 2017-18 onwards for MBBS studies. Taking note of the fact that the earlier direction could not be complied due to non-cooperation and CoVID, bench of Justices …

Rulings that impact a State’s medical infrastructure
3 years, 6 months ago

Rulings that impact a State’s medical infrastructure

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu has been in the middle of a journey for some time to set up a medical college in every district. Editorial | Tamil Nadu’s case against NEET Until 2015-16, admission to Tamil Nadu super-specialty medical seats was on the basis of a State entrance exam, with domicile requirement and in-service quota. 196 of 2018 ) was filed by …

Withdraw P-G medical education regulations bill, says IMA
3 years, 7 months ago

Withdraw P-G medical education regulations bill, says IMA

The Hindu  

The Indian Medical Association has demanded that the National Medical Commission withdraw the draft post-graduate medical education regulations 2021 bill which notes that there shall be common counselling for admission in all medical educational institutions to all Post-graduate Broad -Specialty courses on the basis of the merit list of the National Exit Test. The Association has also demanded that the …

Kerala High Court Nods To Lateral Entry Scheme In Engineering Colleges To Admit Eligible Students In Third Semester Of B.Tech Courses
3 years, 7 months ago

Kerala High Court Nods To Lateral Entry Scheme In Engineering Colleges To Admit Eligible Students In Third Semester Of B.Tech Courses

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Friday ruled that prospectus approving the Lateral Entry Scheme intended to admit eligible meritorious students to the third semester of the B.Tech courses was valid in law. The Single Judge had ruled that the prospectus issued by the Director of Technical Education regarding Lateral Entry Scheme, intended to admit meritorious Diploma / D. Voc / …

Don't Publish Entrance Exams Results For Professional Courses : Kerala High Court Passes Interim Order On CBSE/ICSE Students' Plea
3 years, 7 months ago

Don't Publish Entrance Exams Results For Professional Courses : Kerala High Court Passes Interim Order On CBSE/ICSE Students' Plea

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Monday directed the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations to refrain from publishing the rank list before disposal of the petition that sought to admit students to professional courses and other streams based solely on the basis of their scores in the entrance exams rather than considering the results of the Grade XII examinations. Petitioners are Grade …

Madras High Court Seeks State Govt's Response On Plea Challenging 7.5 Percent Reservation Of Seats In Medical Colleges For Government School Students
3 years, 7 months ago

Madras High Court Seeks State Govt's Response On Plea Challenging 7.5 Percent Reservation Of Seats In Medical Colleges For Government School Students

Live Law  

The Madras High Court on Monday sought the State government's response in a batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020. The impugned legislation grants a horizontal reservation of 7.5 per cent seats in medical colleges for …

Parents of Class XI Students Move Supreme Court Seeking Cancellation of Class XI State Board Examination In Kerala
3 years, 9 months ago

Parents of Class XI Students Move Supreme Court Seeking Cancellation of Class XI State Board Examination In Kerala

Live Law  

The Supreme Court of India has been approached by parents of Class XI students from Kerala seeking directions for cancellation of Class XI Examination to be conducted by Kerala State Board on September 6th, 2021, in wake of the Pandemic.The relief has been sought through an application seeking intervention in the plea filed for cancellation of Class XII State Board …

Lack Of Faculties, Infrastructure: Patna High Court Stays Fresh Admissions In Law Colleges In Bihar
3 years, 11 months ago

Lack Of Faculties, Infrastructure: Patna High Court Stays Fresh Admissions In Law Colleges In Bihar

Live Law  

In a significant development, the Patna High Court last week stayed new admissions in Government and Private law colleges in the State of Bihar till further orders. It may be noted that the Patna High Court was hearing the plea filed by one Kunal Kaushal, who had prayed before the court that posts of permanent teaching faculties in the law …

Unaided Professional Institutions Can Decide Fee, Should Not Result in Profiteering: SC
4 years, 1 month ago

Unaided Professional Institutions Can Decide Fee, Should Not Result in Profiteering: SC

News 18  

Unaided professional institutions have the autonomy to decide on the fee to be charged, subject to the condition that it should not result in profiteering, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. The observation came while delivering a judgment on appeals pertaining to fee fixation by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee for MBBS students in private self-financing medical colleges in …

Migration From Unrecognised Medical College To Recognised One Restricted By MCI Regulations: Supreme Court
4 years, 1 month ago

Migration From Unrecognised Medical College To Recognised One Restricted By MCI Regulations: Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that migration cannot be permitted from an unrecognised medical college to a recognised medical college in view of Regulation 6 of the Medical Council of India Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997. Recognition of medical qualifications granted by Universities or medical institutions in India: Section 11 in The Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 2) …

Supreme Court Directs Medical College In Telangana To Pay 10 Lakh Compensation To PG Medical Course Aspirant For Illegally Denying Admission
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Directs Medical College In Telangana To Pay 10 Lakh Compensation To PG Medical Course Aspirant For Illegally Denying Admission

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has directed a medical college in Telangana to pay Rupees Ten Lakh as compensation to a PG Medical Course aspirant for illegally denying admission in the college.The bench comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta also observed that one seat in MS course from the Management Quota of Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences and Research Centre …

Supreme Court reserves order on in-service quota for medical admissions
4 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court reserves order on in-service quota for medical admissions

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the interim question whether Tamil Nadu and Kerala should provide 50% in-service reservation for admissions to super-specialty medical courses in government colleges for the current academic year. A Bench led by Justice L. Nageswara Rao was hearing a batch of pleas filed by doctors, including postgraduate holders qualified in NEET 2020, …

State Can Revoke 'Essentiality Certificate' Granted To Medical College On The Ground Of 'Gross Deficiencies': SC [Read Judgment]
4 years, 7 months ago

State Can Revoke 'Essentiality Certificate' Granted To Medical College On The Ground Of 'Gross Deficiencies': SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has held that State Government has power to revoke the 'Essentiality Certificate' once granted for opening of a new medical college on the ground of 'gross deficiency'. In this case, the Madhya Pradesh Government revoked the Essentiality Certificate granted to Gyanjeet Sewa Mission Trust for establishing a medical college at Jabalpur in the State of Madhya Pradesh. …

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