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SC upholds MCI notification
Why it is in news?
- The Supreme Court upheld the validity of a April 9 notification issued by the Medical Council of India (MCI)
- The notification was making changes in the method of admissions to the postgraduate medical courses to arrest the blocking of seats by certain candidates
- It was detrimental to the interest of meritorious students in the all India quota.
- A Bench of Justices passed the order on a notification issued by the MCI in the Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018.
- Admission to postgraduate courses is on the basis of the merit of the candidates in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-PG) conducted every year.
- Fifty% seats are earmarked for all India quota and the remaining for the State quota.
- The court, in an eight-page order, observed that there is material on record to suggest that devious methods were adopted by certain candidates to block the seats in the All India quota and resign thereafter from those seats which resulted in reversion of the all India quota seats to the State quota.
Illegal practice
- The Medical Counselling Committee identified about thousand candidates who were indulging in such illegal practice and proposes to take action against them after a thorough inquiry
- The court said there was no infringement in the rights of the petitioners, who had challenged MCI’s April 9 notification, in the background of the ongoing counselling for the postgraduate medical admissions after NEET.