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 and All India Institute of Medical Sciences in a petition challenging the reservation quota for "Institutional Preference" that exceeds 50% in postgraduate admissions. Supreme Court Decisions Did Not Uphold Institutional Preference Quota At The Cost Merit: Petitioner Highlights While the decision in AIIMS Student Union v. AIIMS and Suarabh Choudhari v. UOI upheld the constitutionality of the Institutional Preference Quota, it specified that such a quota cannot overtake admissions based on the merit of the candidates. The petition seeks a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to allot a seat for any one discipline the petitioner preferred; Confine the Institutional Preference Quota to 50% in the post-graduate admissions as per previous Court decisions; directing the respondents to act upon the Supreme Court's previous suggestions and codify how "Institutional Preference" is implemented; It also requests the framing of appropriate rules to ensure that this preference is used only when there is a distinct similarity between two or more candidates.

Supreme Court Reservation Seats Supreme Cji Respondents Petitioner Quota Institutional Preference Institutional Preference Court Seeks Institutional Preference Quota Postgraduate Admissions Union Aiims Inicet  supreme  medical  seats  institutional  exceeding  quota  response  court  seeks  reservation  preference  postgraduate  union  aiims  pg  petitioner

History of this topic

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, …

T.N. govt. to file review petition against SC verdict on residence-based quota in PG medical courses
1 month, 3 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, 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 …

SC ruling on residence-based reservation in PG admissions against State’s rights: DASE
Trending News
1 month, 3 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 …

Domicile-Based Quota in PG Medicine Illegal: SC
Top News
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
Trending News
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 …

'Disputed Question Of Fact': Orissa HC Denies Plea By NEET-UG Candidate Who Missed Govt College Seat Due To 'Technical Glitch'
2 months ago

'Disputed Question Of Fact': Orissa HC Denies Plea By NEET-UG Candidate Who Missed Govt College Seat Due To 'Technical Glitch'

Live Law  

The Orissa High Court has recently denied relief to a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test under-graduate program 2022 candidate who lost chance to get admission into a government medical college due to a 'technical glitch' allegedly on the part of the Medical Counselling Committee. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh–who demitted office last week–and Justice Savitri Ratho found the …

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Telangana HC Decision Which Struck Down Local Quota Criteria For PG Medical Admissions
2 months ago

Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Telangana HC Decision Which Struck Down Local Quota Criteria For PG Medical Admissions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court recently refused to stay a Telangana High Court judgment which struck down amended criteria for determining 'local' status of candidates in post-graduate medical admissions.For context, the provisions struck down by the High Court included explanation clause to Rule 8 of the Telangana Medical Colleges included explanation clause to Rule 8 of the Telangana Medical Colleges Rules, 2021, …

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 …

‘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 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 …

SC declines to grant interim stay of Patna HC decision quashing 65% quota in Bihar
7 months, 3 weeks ago

SC declines to grant interim stay of Patna HC decision quashing 65% quota in Bihar

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on July 29 refused to order interim stay of a Patna High Court decision quashing reservation up to 65% for Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in public employment and institutions. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate Shyam Divan, for Bihar, urged the court to stay the High Court decision which had …

Calcutta High Court Dismisses Pleas Seeking Action Over Alleged Misuse Of NRI Quota For Admission To Private Medical Colleges
10 months, 1 week ago

Calcutta High Court Dismisses Pleas Seeking Action Over Alleged Misuse Of NRI Quota For Admission To Private Medical Colleges

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed pleas seeking the Court's intervention over the issue of NRI quota in medical admissions and compliance with the Supreme Court's guidelines on the same.In dismissing the plea, a division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya noted that the pleas were from 2019, and that since then there were various changes …

'Can state insist on seat-sharing in unaided minority instis': HC judge seeks full bench hearing
1 year, 3 months ago

'Can state insist on seat-sharing in unaided minority instis': HC judge seeks full bench hearing

New Indian Express  

MADURAI: A single judge of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has sought a Full Bench hearing to decide whether the state government has the power to insist on a fixed quota of seat-sharing between the management and the state in unaided minority educational institutions offering professional courses. Justice N Anand Venkatesh observed that the government order passed …

'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, 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 …

Supreme Court Rules PEC University's 75% Sports Quota Requirement
1 year, 7 months ago

Supreme Court Rules PEC University's 75% Sports Quota Requirement

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the requirement of minimum 75% in the qualifying examination imposed by the PEC University of Technology for admission through the sports quota, i.e. Expecting the same degree of academic excellence as that of general candidates will defeat the purpose of the sports quota the Court opined: “The imposition of the minimum 75% eligibility …

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 …

Supreme Court Dismisses IMA Bihar's Plea Challenging Minimum Percentile Criteria For NEET-PG Admissions
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court Dismisses IMA Bihar's Plea Challenging Minimum Percentile Criteria For NEET-PG Admissions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on March 27 dismissed a special leave petition filed by Indian Medical Association Bihar State Branch challenging a Delhi High Court judgment which upheld the regulation mandating minimum marks of 50th percentile in National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test for admission to postgraduate courses.The Court observed that it was not inclined to entertain the Special. The Supreme Court on March …

Supreme Court To Pronounce Verdict On Validity Of EWS Quota On November 7
2 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court To Pronounce Verdict On Validity Of EWS Quota On November 7

Live Law  

The Supreme Court verdict determining the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which introduced 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in education and public employment is likely to come out next week. CASE TITLE: Janhit Abhiyan v. Union Of India with 32 connected matters | W.P.NO.55/2019 and connected issues Reports of the hearings : EWS Quota - 103rd Amendment Negates …

What’s wrong in using economic criteria for reservation, asks Supreme Court
2 years, 6 months ago

What’s wrong in using economic criteria for reservation, asks Supreme Court

The Hindu  

What is “so principally, so fundamentally wrong” in singling out economic criterion for grant of reservation, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India U.U. The quota excludes Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, who form ‘homogenous groups’ included in the prevalent 50% reservation granted separately. Reservation was not meant to …

Supreme Court Directs All AIIMS Institutes To Adopt Roster Based Reservation For Preferential Candidates As Followed By JIPMER
2 years, 10 months ago

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

Live Law  

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 …

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 …

Institutions Can't Cancel Enrolment Of 'Erroneously Admitted' Students Mid-Course In Absence Of Any Wrongdoings On Their Part: Delhi High Court
3 years, 1 month ago

Institutions Can't Cancel Enrolment Of 'Erroneously Admitted' Students Mid-Course In Absence Of Any Wrongdoings On Their Part: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has allowed a petition filed by students of MSc Nursing at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, challenging an Office Memorandum of the Institution canceling their admission. Applying the observations of the Supreme Court in Rajendra Prasad Mathur, in the present case also, the blame lies more upon the Institution than the petitioners." In Ashok …

SC quashes High Court verdict directing 3% sports quota in medical, dental colleges for Punjab
3 years, 1 month ago

SC quashes High Court verdict directing 3% sports quota in medical, dental colleges for Punjab

India Today  

Setting aside a part of the Punjab and Harayana High court that directed the Punjab government to provide three, instead of one percent reservation under the sports category in state-run medical and dental colleges, Supreme Court observed that the courts cannot issue writs to provide quotas. The high court verdict The verdict was handed out as a result of the …

'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 …

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 …

Supreme Court Adjourns Pleas Seeking JIPMER Roster Model For AIIMS PG Admissions Till January 24
3 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court Adjourns Pleas Seeking JIPMER Roster Model For AIIMS PG Admissions Till January 24

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the batch of pleas seeking the JIPMER Roster Model for Institutional Preference be followed in AIIMS PG Admissions and INI CET Examination for January 24, 2022.The bench of Justices LN Rao and BR Gavai also directed the respondents to file counter affidavits.When the matter was called for hearing, Advocate Charu Mathur appearing for Students. …

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 …

AIIMS Students Association Moves Supreme Court Seeking JIPMER Model Roster For Institutional Preference In PG Admissions
3 years, 2 months ago

AIIMS Students Association Moves Supreme Court Seeking JIPMER Model Roster For Institutional Preference In PG Admissions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in the Writ Petition filed by AIIMS Students Association challenging the existing system for institutional preference for post-graduate admissions in AIIMS. Under the existing system, based on the Supreme Court judgments in AIIMS Students Union v AIIMS 1 SCC 428) and Saurabh Chaudri and Ors v Union of India, 11 SCC 146, MBBS …

[INI CET Examination] Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea For Defined Criteria For Arriving At Seat Matrix For Institutional Preference Candidates
3 years, 3 months ago

[INI CET Examination] Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea For Defined Criteria For Arriving At Seat Matrix For Institutional Preference Candidates

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today issued notice in a writ petition seeking for a defined criteria for arriving at seat matrix for the institutional preference candidates in INI-CET examination.The bench of Justices LN Rao, BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna while issuing notice made it clear that no order shall be passed for admission to INI CET Exam for the current session. …

EWS quota in NEET admissions | Do you want to revisit ₹8 lakh slab, Supreme Court asks government
3 years, 5 months ago

EWS quota in NEET admissions | Do you want to revisit ₹8 lakh slab, Supreme Court asks government

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Government if it wants to revisit the limit of ₹8 lakh annual income fixed for determining the Economically Weaker Sections category for reservation in NEET admissions for medical courses under the all-India quota. The court said it might even “stay the Government notification fixing ₹8 lakh for determining the EWS”. In the previous …

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 …

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity
3 years, 7 months ago

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity

News 18  

Last week, Narendra Modi-led NDA government declared 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for EWS students in the ‘All India Quota’ seats for admission to medical courses. Hence, the court declared that 30 per cent seats in undergraduate courses and 50 per cent seats in postgraduate courses in any state must be open to students …

Centre reserves 27% seats for OBCs, 10% for EWS in medical schools even as Constitution Bench examines 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act
3 years, 7 months ago

Centre reserves 27% seats for OBCs, 10% for EWS in medical schools even as Constitution Bench examines 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act

Firstpost  

The OBC students from across the country will now be able to avail of this reservation in AIQ Scheme to compete for seats in any state In a landmark decision, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to provide 27 percent reservation for OBCs and 10 percent reservation for Economically Weaker Section in the All India Quota …

Plea against reservation policy of medical college in Daman quashed by SC
4 years, 2 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 …

Supreme Court reserves order on in-service quota for medical admissions
4 years, 3 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, …

Supreme Court Reserves Judgment On Challenge To In-Service Reservation For Doctors In PG-Super Speciality Medical Courses
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Reserves Judgment On Challenge To In-Service Reservation For Doctors In PG-Super Speciality Medical Courses

Live Law  

The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi was hearing the challenge to the October 7 judgment of the Kerala High Court and the November 9 decision of the Madras High Court, allowing 40% and 50% in-service quota in PG-Super Speciality medical courses also. The High Courts noted that as the Supreme Court five-judge bench has …

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 …

NRI Quota in National Law Universities Unconstitutional, Affront to Meritorious Candidates: Orissa HC
4 years, 4 months ago

NRI Quota in National Law Universities Unconstitutional, Affront to Meritorious Candidates: Orissa HC

News 18  

The Orissa High Court has observed that a reservation for the non-resident Indian Hearing a petition, a division bench comprising Justice Sanju Panda and Justice S K Panigrahi on Tuesday observed that the NRIS category is like a “reservation for the elite class”. “…we are constrained to observe that the NRIS category is an affront to the meritorious candidates who …

NRI/NRI Sponsored Quota In NLUs Is Like Reservation For Elite Class; This Dubious Category Of Quota Is Unconstitutional: Orissa High Court [Read Order]
4 years, 4 months ago

NRI/NRI Sponsored Quota In NLUs Is Like Reservation For Elite Class; This Dubious Category Of Quota Is Unconstitutional: Orissa High Court [Read Order]

Live Law  

"The candidates belonging to the category of NRI/NRIS, who are very low ranked in the merit list often get seats in the NLUs whereas the general candidates having secured better marks also lag behind the NRIS students and get disappointed", said the bench of Justices S. Panda and S. K. Panigrahi. Remarking that this is "like the reservation for the …

States Can Provide In-Service Quota In PG-Super Speciality Medical Courses: Kerala HC[Read Judgment]
4 years, 5 months ago

States Can Provide In-Service Quota In PG-Super Speciality Medical Courses: Kerala HC[Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Observing that the States have the power to provide quota for in-service candidates in PG-Super Speciality medical courses, the High Court of Kerala has directed that the 40 % in-service quota under the Kerala Medical Officers Postgraduate and Service Quota Act, 2008 should be given effect during the counselling for PG-Super Speciality medical seats.A division bench comprising Chief Justice. Observing …

Discover Related