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Supreme Court Directs All AIIMS Institutes To Adopt Roster Based Reservation For Preferential Candidates As Followed By JIPMER

While hearing a plea seeking direction to AIIMS to have a defined criteria for arriving at seat matrix for institutional preference candidates in INI-CET examination, the Supreme Court, on Friday, directed all AIIMS Institutes to adopt roster based reservation followed by Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry. On the last date of hearing, the Court was informed that apart from AIIMS, Bhubaneswar and AIIMS, Jodhpur, all other AIIMS before the Apex Court has agreed to implement the roster-based reservation system followed by JIPMER Puducherry for their institutional preference candidates. The petitioners claim that in the INI-CET examination conducted in July, 2021, only 4 seats in AIIMS, New Delhi were allotted to institutional preference candidates. By way of an affidavit dated 20.01.2022, the Bench was apprised that pursuant to a meeting held on 28.06.2020, AIIMS New Delhi was willing to provide a roster-point based reservation for its institutional preference candidates.

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