The Supreme Court (SC) has pulled up the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on Wednesday for leaving greater than 1,450 seats vacant in NEET-PG-21. According to SC, it won’t solely put the aspirants in problem however would additionally result in a dearth of docs. The apex courtroom gave 24-hours time to the Centre and the MCC to file an affidavit indicating the place of whole seats which have remained vacant and the explanations as to why they weren’t crammed up by the candidates.
A trip bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose heard a batch of petitions in search of a particular stray spherical of counselling to fill the 1456 seats which have remained vacant after the conduct of a stray spherical of counselling in All India Quota.
“It’s the duty of the Medical Council to see that these seats do not remain vacant. After every round of counselling, this is the same problem. Why cannot the process be streamlined? What do we get by leaving the seats vacant when we are in need of doctors? This will not only create problems for the aspirants but would also encourage corruption,” the bench stated.
It directed the counsel showing for the Centre and MCC to file the affidavit in the course of the course of the day and posted the matter for additional listening to on Thursday. The bench stated that if the scholars will not be given admission, it might go the order within the matter and direct compensation to the candidates, who’ve been denied admission.
“It is the future of the students which is at stake here. First, you have to study hard and then you have to give the examination. Even if you get 99 per cent marks in the examination, there is an admission problem. Then there is the super speciality problem. Do you even understand the situation of the student,” the bench additional added.
The batch of petitions has been filed by docs who’ve appeared in NEET-PG 2021-22 examination and have participated in Rounds 1 and a pair of of All India Quota (AIQ) Counselling and State Quota Counselling.
With inputs from PTI.
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