Plea against reservation policy of medical college in Daman quashed by SC
4 years, 3 months ago

Plea against reservation policy of medical college in Daman quashed by SC

India Today  

The Supreme Court decided to decline the plea entered against the reservation policy of the first medical college which has been established in Daman. The plea was quashed after the Supreme Court bench consisting of Justices Indira Banerjee and Hemant Gupta while refusing to entertain the plea said policy decision cannot be ordinarily interfered with. The petitioner student Muskan Samir Modasia was seeking admission in Namo Medical Education and Research Institute, Silvassa, saying she has studied in Daman from standard 1 to 6, as per ANI reports. Reservation policy called “discriminatory” Since the petitioner was only a student in Daman from standard 1 to 6, she did not qualify for admission in the medical college under the reservation policy.

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Only Telangana caste certificates applicable for medical PG seats, says High Court
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Only Telangana caste certificates applicable for medical PG seats, says High Court

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has upheld Telangana’s decision regarding reservations in postgraduate medical admissions, ruling that the state has the authority to determine reservation policies in its notification for filling medical PG seats. The notification mandated that candidates applying under Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Backward Class categories must submit the latest social status certificate issued by the Telangana …

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, …

NEET PG: SC declares domicile-based reservation unconstitutional
1 month, 3 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, 3 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 …

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 …

Violates equality: Supreme Court cancels domicile-based PG medical quotas
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Violates equality: Supreme Court cancels domicile-based PG medical quotas

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled domicile-based reservation of seats for postgraduate medical courses, calling it unconstitutional and violative of the right to equality. A three-judge bench said admissions to PG medical courses should strictly be based on merit even though it clarified that the verdict would not affect domicile-based reservations already granted by states. "Residence-based reservation in PG medical …

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

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

Court Cannot Examine Correctness Of Policy Decision Which Is Supported By Sufficient Material And Complies With Article 14: Patna High Court
4 months, 1 week ago

Court Cannot Examine Correctness Of Policy Decision Which Is Supported By Sufficient Material And Complies With Article 14: Patna High Court

Live Law  

The Patna High Court has reiterated that once it is found that there exists sufficient material supporting a particular policy decision and it falls within the scope of Article 14 of the Constitution, the power of judicial review does not extend to determine the correctness of that policy decision or finding out an alternative. However, once it is found that …

Supreme Court Seeks Response From Union, AIIMS In Challenge To 'Institutional Preference' Quota Exceeding 50% In PG Medical Admissions
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Seeks Response From Union, AIIMS In Challenge To 'Institutional Preference' Quota Exceeding 50% In PG Medical Admissions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Union and All India Institute of Medical Sciences in a petition challenging the reservation quota for "Institutional Preference" that exceeds 50% in postgraduate admissions.The Petitioner has challenged the over-reservation or 'super reservation' of seats under 'Institutional Preference' in the postgraduate admissions as being. The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Union …

'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 …

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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

Quota for AP students in TS medical colleges: HC to adjudicate on August 9
1 year, 7 months ago

Quota for AP students in TS medical colleges: HC to adjudicate on August 9

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court will on August 9 adjudicate a batch of petitions, which challenged the government’s decision not to provide 15 per cent reservation to students from Andhra Pradesh in the MBBS admissions in colleges that were established after 2014. A division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Tadakamalla Vinod Kumar was dealing with the petition …

NEET-PG : Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Disabled Candidate's Plea For Admission To Dermatology Course In PwD Quota
2 years, 3 months ago

NEET-PG : Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Disabled Candidate's Plea For Admission To Dermatology Course In PwD Quota

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea filed by a physically challenged general quota candidate seeking admission in the Master of Medicine programme in a medical college in the State of West Bengal. The matter was heard by a bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha and Justice JB Pardiwala.As per the petitioner, the State quota …

NEET PG 2021: Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Quashing Of Medical College Notification Which Barred Candidates Allocated PG Seats In State Counselling From Mop Up
2 years, 9 months ago

NEET PG 2021: Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Quashing Of Medical College Notification Which Barred Candidates Allocated PG Seats In State Counselling From Mop Up

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice in SLP assailing Himachal Pradesh High Court's order of setting aside a notice issued by a Medical College in the State of HP which made the candidates who had been allocated PG seats in previous rounds of State Counselling ineligible to participate in further rounds of counselling including Mop Up round. Case Before …

NEET Admissions : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Time For Fresh Registration In NRI Quota Before Mop Up Counseling
2 years, 11 months ago

NEET Admissions : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Time For Fresh Registration In NRI Quota Before Mop Up Counseling

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a petition filed by NRI students seeking time for fresh registration in the NRI quota before commencement of the Mop-Up counseling. In the impugned judgment, the bench headed by Chief Justice S Manikumar had said, "Since it has been pointed out that the last date for admission for MBBS course is today …

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 …

NEET PG Counselling 2021: Supreme Court to Hear Plea Challenging OBC, EWS Quota Today
3 years, 4 months ago

NEET PG Counselling 2021: Supreme Court to Hear Plea Challenging OBC, EWS Quota Today

News 18  

The Supreme Court will hear a plea today regarding the validation of reservation for Other Backward Class and Economically Weaker Section category for admissions to the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test postgraduate courses. The Medical Counselling Committee’s had directed the colleges to provide 27 per cent reservation for OBC and 10 per cent for EWS for admission to PG medical …

NEET PG Counselling: SC to Hear Plea to Decide Validity of EWS, OBC Reservation in Medical College Admissions
3 years, 4 months ago

NEET PG Counselling: SC to Hear Plea to Decide Validity of EWS, OBC Reservation in Medical College Admissions

News 18  

The Supreme Court will be hearing a plea today on the validity of reservation for EWS and OBC candidates in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test PG 2021 counselling. The counselling process for NEET PG 2021 has been put on hold till Supreme Court decides on the validity of the centre’s decision to introduce reservation for OBC and EWS in …

SC to Hear Centre's Plea Against Madras HC Observation on EWS Quota in Medical Admissions
3 years, 6 months ago

SC to Hear Centre's Plea Against Madras HC Observation on EWS Quota in Medical Admissions

News 18  

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday the Centre’s plea against the Madras High Court’s observation that the notification on grant of 10 per cent quota to the economically weaker sections in all-India quota seats of medical colleges would require approval of the top court. While disposing of the contempt plea of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam against the …

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea challenging All India Quota for medical studies
3 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea challenging All India Quota for medical studies

India Today  

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the central government on a petition challenging the 27% reservation for OBC, and a 10% reservation for EWS candidates in the All India Quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses from the current academic year 2021-22 onwards. The government on July 29 had announced the OBC and EWS medical reservation, …

Decide Petition Challenging Validity Of 100% Reservation In 600 PG Medical Seats On August 25: Supreme Court To MP High Court
3 years, 7 months ago

Decide Petition Challenging Validity Of 100% Reservation In 600 PG Medical Seats On August 25: Supreme Court To MP High Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday requested the Madhya Pradesh High Court to hear and finally dispose of the plea, on August 25, affecting the fate of more than 600 PG Medical Courses in the State of Madhya Pradesh. The SLP had been preferred against the adjournment order passed by the High Court, through which the High Court had deferred the …

Madras High Court not implementing obc quota in Medical College contempt
3 years, 8 months ago

Madras High Court not implementing obc quota in Medical College contempt

Live Law  

The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Central government to immediately take measures for implementing OBC reservation in MBBS seats under All India Quota, across under-graduate and post-graduate medical and dental colleges of the State. "The Union's attempt to not implement the OBC reservation quota in respect of the All India Quota seats in the State in the academic …

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Direction To IITs To Follow Govt's Reservation Policy For Faculty Recruitment, Research Degree Admissions
4 years ago

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Direction To IITs To Follow Govt's Reservation Policy For Faculty Recruitment, Research Degree Admissions

Live Law  

A plea has been moved before the Supreme Court seeking direction to all the twenty-three Indian Institutes of Technology to follow the reservation policy in the admission in research degree program and recruitment of faculty in the IITs. The plea alleges that the reservation policy that provides the reservation to socially marginalized community belonging to the SC, ST, and OBC …

Supreme Court Rejects Plea For Interim Order For Implementation of 50% OBC Reservation in Medical College Seats in 2020-2021
4 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Rejects Plea For Interim Order For Implementation of 50% OBC Reservation in Medical College Seats in 2020-2021

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed pleas filed by State of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK seeking a direction for implementation of 50% quota for Other Backward Classes in the All India Quota for undergraduate, post-graduate medical and dental courses in Tamilnadu for the academic year 2020-2021.A Bench comprising of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi dismissed the …

Medical Admission - NRI Quota Not Compulsory; Private Colleges Have Discretion To Abolish It: SC [Read Judgment]
4 years, 5 months ago

Medical Admission - NRI Quota Not Compulsory; Private Colleges Have Discretion To Abolish It: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has held that it is not compulsory for the private medical colleges to provide for 15% NRI quota.Private colleges and institutions which offer such professional and technical courses can decide whether, and to what extent, they wish to offer NRI or management quotas, subject to limits set by judicial precedents, enacted law or subordinate legislation.In this case, …

Medical Admission: Madras HC Clears Decks for OBC Reservation in All India Quota
4 years, 7 months ago

Medical Admission: Madras HC Clears Decks for OBC Reservation in All India Quota

News 18  

The Madras High Court on Monday cleared the decks for OBC reservation under All India Quota medical seats in non-central institutions and gave the Centre three months time to take a decision on the percentage. ".We find that on principle there is no legal or constitutional impediment for extending the benefit of reservation to OBC in the state surrendered AIQ …

'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 …

SC Refuses To Entertain Pleas Against Denial Of OBC Reservation In NEET All India Quota ; Grants Liberty To Move HC
4 years, 9 months ago

SC Refuses To Entertain Pleas Against Denial Of OBC Reservation In NEET All India Quota ; Grants Liberty To Move HC

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a batch of pleas seeking to restrain the Centre from proceeding with all India counselling for UG and PG medical courses, without implementing 50% OBC reservation in Tamil Nadu. Background The petitions contended "there is no rational basis for not extending the benefit of 50 per cent reservation for OBCs, as envisaged …

PG quota: Maratha Kranti Morcha backs protesting students
5 years, 10 months ago

PG quota: Maratha Kranti Morcha backs protesting students

The Hindu  

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, on Sunday, announced its support to 250 aggrieved Maratha students whose postgraduate admission in medical colleges has been cancelled. The students have been protesting at Azad Maidan against the cancellation of their admissions following the Supreme Court striking down the 16 % Maratha quota for PG students in the medical stream this year. We have also …

KMCT Medical College Withdraws Plea Against Nativity-Based Criterion For Determining The Eligibility Of Candidates For Admission [Read Order]
6 years, 9 months ago

KMCT Medical College Withdraws Plea Against Nativity-Based Criterion For Determining The Eligibility Of Candidates For Admission [Read Order]

Live Law  

Praying that private self-financing educational institutions be entitled to access the all-India pool of students by way of central counseling to fill seats, KMCT Medical College of Kerala has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the nativity-based criterion for determining the eligibility of candidates for the purpose of admission.After the vacation bench of Justice. Praying that private self-financing …

Can States Provide For Reservation For In-Service Candidates For PG Medical Courses? ; SC Constitution Bench To Examine [Read Order]
6 years, 11 months ago

Can States Provide For Reservation For In-Service Candidates For PG Medical Courses? ; SC Constitution Bench To Examine [Read Order]

Live Law  

Can state make reservation in favour of the in-service candidates for Post Graduate medical courses?, the Supreme Court has reopened this question as it has referred the matter to Constitution bench.Tamil Nadu Medical Officers’ Association and others had filed a writ petition before the Apex Court challenging Regulation 9 and of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000,. Can state …

Can States Provide For Reservation For In-Service Candidates For PG Medical Courses? ; SC Constitution Bench To Examine [Read Order]
6 years, 11 months ago

Can States Provide For Reservation For In-Service Candidates For PG Medical Courses? ; SC Constitution Bench To Examine [Read Order]

Live Law  

Can state make reservation in favour of the in-service candidates for Post Graduate medical courses?, the Supreme Court has reopened this question as it has referred the matter to Constitution bench.Tamil Nadu Medical Officers’ Association and others had filed a writ petition before the Apex Court challenging Regulation 9 and of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000,. Can state …

Supreme Court
9 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Central government and state governments to do away with all forms of reservation in higher education institutions in the national interest. The top court's observation came following batch of petitions that some states were allowing only domiciled MBBS doctors to appear for entrance exams. In both the cases, the daily reported, the …

Quota in medical, dental PG courses: SC rejects plea of Jat students
9 years, 11 months ago

Quota in medical, dental PG courses: SC rejects plea of Jat students

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of Jat students seeking benefits of reservation under Other Backward Class in the ongoing process of admission in post-graduate medical and dental courses. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of Jat students seeking benefits of reservation under Other Backward Class in the ongoing process of admission in post-graduate …

The salient features
19 years, 6 months ago

The salient features

The Hindu  

THE seven-member Bench in the P.A. On the quota issue, the Bench held that the state cannot insist on unaided private educational institutions implementing the state's reservation policy for granting admission on any criterion other than merit. State regulation should be minimal and only with a view to maintaining fairness and transparency in the admission procedure and checking the exploitation …

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