HC overturns new norms for admission to PG seats in medical college

The court directed the government to specifically mention the seats allocated for both the categories in various faculties — general duty officers (GDOs),who are serving doctors in the periphery and the direct entrants,who are not serving doctors—¿ that was not mentioned in the prospectus that was challenged in the court,said advocate for the petitioners Shravan Dogra.

The bench noted that the reservation roster will be implemented for each category from the point where it closed in the previous year.

Earlier,the GDOs are given 70 per cent reservation and direct entrants only 30 per cent seats for PG courses. The merit list for both the categories was prepared separately and their allocation in each faculty was also specified in advance.

However,this year the contention arose when the PG prospectus did not specify division of the exact number of seats between both the categories and a centralized (common) merit list for both the categories was prepared.

The doctors pleaded the direct candidates,who had higher merit in the written exam than the serving doctors were favoured with chunk of seats in most demanded faculties,in which they could not get even a single seat.

The counseling for the PG seats on the new norms this year was held on April 23. Of the 38 seats advertised,27 were for GDOs (21 general and six for SC/ST) and 11 for direct entrants.