India, January 7: The Supreme court of India on Friday in an interm order allowed resumption of NEET PG counseling as per the prior notified criteria for the year 2021-2022 bringing the end to the delay in NEET-PG Counselling.
The verdict was made by a bench of Justices led by Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna at 10:30 AM
Supreme court upheld the centre’s earlier decision to implement 27 per cent reservation for OBC in All India quota undergraduate & postgraduate medical seats.
The supreme court also allowed 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weeker section ( EWS) uphelding the 8 Lakh income criteria for this year, and for the coming years the decision for validity is yet to be made in a final hearing in March.
SC said the counselling for the NEET-UG & PG shall be conducted in accord to the government notification of July 29,2021 which stipulates 27% OBC & 10% EWS quotes in the All India Medical seats.
NEET-PG Counselling 2021-22 was being delayed a lot; earlier it was scheduled to commence on October 25, 2021 but was deffered till further notice after a batch of petitions were filed in the Supreme Court challanging centre’s notification providing 27% reservation to OBCs and 10% reservation to EWS in NEET PG All India Quota.
This Delay in counseling led to protest of Resident Doctors as there was a lot of workload on doctors because of the shortage of Man Power amid the COVID Crisis across the nation.
