NEET PG Counselling: Supreme Court Seeks DGHS Reply On Pleas For Participation In Mop-Up Round
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NEET PG Counselling: A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant asked Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for DGHS, to file a detailed reply on two sets of petitions filed by the doctors.
The Supreme Court Monday asked the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to respond to a batch of petitions filed by a group of doctors seeking to participate in mop-up round of NEET-PG 2021-22 counselling. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant asked Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for DGHS, to file a detailed reply on two sets of petitions filed by the doctors.
The bench told the counsel for petitioners, “Granting a stay on the process of counselling will be a very extreme step. We are dealing with medical students. If we cancel the seats, then we will have to cancel all the admissions, which would further delay the whole process. You all should come out with a solution also”. Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranaryanan appearing for some of the petitioners said that notices have been issued by the DGHS bringing into new seats which were not available to them and now students who were below in merit will be getting better seats.
“After the second round of counselling, we were allotted the seats. Then DGHS issued two notices to bring into the pool some seats which were not available to them. Hundreds of seats were added to the pool as a result people who were well below in merit were given seats which were not available to us”, he said.
Senior advocate Rakesh Khanna, appearing for another set of students, said that there was a trend of blocking of seats and that was the reason why there were over 6,000 seats in mop-up round. Mr Bhati said that the court should not allow any fresh registration in the stray round as if it is allowed then the process would become never ending. She said that only 150 new seats were added and there were only two options available that either the seats be allowed to remain vacant or added in the mop-up round so that they get filled up.
