SC declines interim relief for OBC quota in AIQ seats in TN govt.-run medical colleges
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In the final listening to held in the case, the National Medical Commission had stated it was not attainable to increase OBC quota advantages this yr for NEET-UG candidates.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to order the interim relief of implementing 50% reservation this yr itself for NEET-UG college students belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in medical and dental seats contributed to the All India Quota (AIQ) by State government-run colleges in Tamil Nadu.
A Bench led by Justice L. Nageswara Rao refused the interim relief on separate petitions filed by Tamil Nadu authorities represented by senior advocate V. Giri, AIADMK represented by advocate Balaji Srinivasan and DMK by senior advocate P. Wilson, amongst different events.
In the final listening to held in the case, the National Medical Commission had said it was not possible to extend OBC quota benefits this year for NEET-UG candidates as a result of college students had stuffed their utility kinds for NEET in January-February itself.
“They had also filled the category under which they were applying. The NEET results would also show this category… The OBC reservation was not open then in January-February,” Mr. Sharma had submitted then.
Mr. Sharma, who was supported by the Centre, had stated the reservation roster was already mounted by the Directorate General of Health Services.
The NEET results was declared on October 16, adopted by the counselling periods.
In August, the Tamil Nadu authorities and the opposite events had challenged a Madras High Court determination to arrange a committee to “finalise” the OBC reservation in State-surrendered seats for the All India Quota in non-central medical colleges.
They had objected to how the excessive court docket had declined to straightaway order the Centre and MCI to implement 50% reservation for Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Community in these seats in undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma medical and dental programs in compliance with reservation guidelines adopted in the State for the educational yr 2020-21.
The excessive court docket, in its determination on July 27, had declined the mandamus “despite finding there is a clear substantive law providing for State-specific reservation formulated by the MCI.”
“Instead, the court set up a committee, when such a committee was unnecessary, consisting of the Directorate General of Health Services, the MCI and the Tamil Nadu government department concerned to finalise the manner in which the facilities of OBC reservation are to be provided,” the Tamil Nadu authorities had stated.
The State had argued that the excessive court docket was self-contradictory.
“Once the court has determinatively found that the governing law provides for OBC reservation as per Tamil Nadu rules, then the proverbial ‘story’ ends there and the appropriate authorities ought to be directed to apply the law. The committee therefore is aimless and entirely redundant,” the State had argued.
It stated the excessive court docket had additional excluded OBC reservation for the present educational yr – regardless of discovering that there’s a authorized proper. This has denied plenty of deserving OBC candidates seats in the All India Quota for 2020-2021.
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