NEET PG counselling: Supreme Court permits 27% OBC and 10% EWS reservation as per Centre’s standards

The Supreme Court as we speak delivered its much-awaited order on the NEET-PG counselling problem. Upholding the Centre’s choice to avail 27% reservation for the OBC and 10% reservations for the EWS (economically weaker sections), the apex court docket acknowledged that the counselling should go forward with standards as notified by the central authorities earlier.

BIG NEWS: #SupremeCourt permits NEET PG & UG counselling this yr with 27% OBC and 10% EWS reservation with standards as notified by the govt. earlier. 8 lakh restrict for EWS to proceed as ordinary. EWS standards remaining validity to be adjudicated in third week of March, 2022 https://t.co/VpkQ3u3FfX

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The Supreme Court has additionally allowed the 8 lakh annual earnings restrict for the EWS, as of now. The remaining verdict on the EWS standards is to be selected the third week of March.

It is notable right here that resident medical doctors everywhere in the nation have been protesting in opposition to the delays in NEET-PG counselling as a result of the primary yr PG batch is but to affix, delayed by a yr. As remaining yr PG college students are to move and transfer on by March-April, the second-year college students have been those going through the burden of again to again obligation and extended working hours in hospitals and medical faculties.

The NEET-PG exams too have been delayed by over 8 months in 2021.

Under the brand new system, 27% of seats have been to be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). The reservation was to use to the seats that have been ‘surrendered’ to the Central govt by State medical faculties within the 50% All India Quota. After the reservation coverage was questioned in Court, the Central authorities conceded that the scholars can be in a significant issue if the counselling started earlier than the matter was resolved. “The counselling process will not begin till the court decides the pending batch of petitions,” the ASG KM Nataraj had submitted in Court.

On October 21, a Supreme Court bench comprising of Justices DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathna had requested the Centre to rethink the cap of ₹8 lac for figuring out a pupil’s eligibility beneath the EWS quota in NEET PG Counseling. 5 days afterward October 26, the Centre justified the annual earnings bar of ₹8 lacs and added that it was based mostly on the ‘National Cost of Living Index’.

Reportedly, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment additionally acknowledged that the choice was according to Article 14, Article 15, and Article 16 of the Indian Constitution.