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Court directive to States on MBBS admission

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI, AUG. 2. The Supreme Court today directed 15 States and two Union Territories to explain why they did not comply with the time schedule for completing admissions by July 31 to first year MBBS course in government medical colleges for 2004-2005.

A Bench comprising Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari granted a week's time to file their responses and posted the cases for further hearing on August 9.

On July 30, the Court had asked the Chief Secretaries and Health Secretaries of the States of Punjab, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Orissa, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Pondicherry, Goa and Kerala to supply all information in this regard and posted the matter for further hearing today.

The Bench had passed orders on petitions seeking a direction to the Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) to postpone the second round of counselling for the 15 per cent all-India quota admissions in view of the delay in the completion of the process in the medical colleges in several States.

Details not furnished

According to the petitioners, as per the schedule framed in March this year under the Graduate Medical Admission (Amendment) Regulations, each State was required to complete counselling by July 25 so as to complete the process by July 31 so that a clear picture would emerge as to the vacant position for the second round allotment of the 15 per cent quota to the waitlisted candidates.

When the matter was taken up this morning, counsel for the Centre and the Medical Council of India submitted that except a few States, many of them had not furnished the required details.

States given time

In the light of this submission, the Bench granted a week's time to the States concerned to file an affidavit, indicating whether counselling for admission to the first year MBBS course had taken place in the State; if not the reason for the delay in the counselling.

The Bench pointed out that the object of framing the schedule to complete admission process by July 31 was to enable a student to opt either for the State or the all-India quota, if he had been selected in both examinations and to enable the Centre to fill the vacant seats through the second counselling in the second week of August.

If a large number of States did not complete admission in their States within the time schedule it could seriously affect the filling of 15 per cent seats under the all-India quota.

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