SC: DGHS to fill all-India quota in medical colleges
Hemali Chhapia
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Mumbai:
TNN
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In a landmark decision, the
Supreme Court has ordered that the all-India quota in deemed
universities and government medical colleges will be filled by the
director general of health services (DGHS) in New Delhi. This will
include deemed universities run by religious and linguistic minorities
too as these institutes have an all-India character.
Common
counselling for state quota seats in government and private medical
colleges, including colleges institutions run by religious and
linguistic minorities affiliated to state universities, shall be
conducted by the state government or the authority designated by the
state government. Moreover, state governments must conduct two rounds of
centralised counseling for the all-India quota and process the
admission too on behalf of deemed universities and private colleges.
The apex court has ruled that cheques for tuition fees should be collected by the state's admission-conducting body so that colleges do not state that candidates weren't turning up. After the second round of counselling for all-India seats, students who take admission should not be permitted to vacate them, the apex court said.
“This would ensure that very few seats are reverted to the state quota and also allIndia quota seats are filed by students from the all-India merit list only. The students who take admission and secure admission in deemed universities pursuant to the second round of counselling conducted by the DGHS shall not be eligible to participate in any other counseling,“ the SC ruled in a writ petition filed by Dar-us-slam Education Trust against the Medical Council of India.
The notification to be issued by the state notifying the common counselling should also provide the fee structure of deemed universities and private medical colleges, as per the SC directive. “The students who secure admission in MBBS course pursuant to the common counselling conducted by the state government, should be made to deposit with the counselling committee the demand draft towards the fees payable to the institution. The admission counselling committee shall forthwith forward the demand draft to the respective institutioncollegesuniversity. The necessity for including the above-mentioned requirement has arisen as it has been time and again noticed that when students report to the college after the counselling they are refused admission by the colleges on some pretext or the other and it is shown by the college as if the student never reported to the college for admission.“
After the completion of counseling, the state government shall determine the number of seats that are still vacant and thereafter shall forward a list of students in order of merit, equaling to 10 times the number of vacant seats to the medical college so that in case of any stray vacancy arising in any college the said seat may be filled up from the said list, the SC said.
The apex court has ruled that cheques for tuition fees should be collected by the state's admission-conducting body so that colleges do not state that candidates weren't turning up. After the second round of counselling for all-India seats, students who take admission should not be permitted to vacate them, the apex court said.
“This would ensure that very few seats are reverted to the state quota and also allIndia quota seats are filed by students from the all-India merit list only. The students who take admission and secure admission in deemed universities pursuant to the second round of counselling conducted by the DGHS shall not be eligible to participate in any other counseling,“ the SC ruled in a writ petition filed by Dar-us-slam Education Trust against the Medical Council of India.
The notification to be issued by the state notifying the common counselling should also provide the fee structure of deemed universities and private medical colleges, as per the SC directive. “The students who secure admission in MBBS course pursuant to the common counselling conducted by the state government, should be made to deposit with the counselling committee the demand draft towards the fees payable to the institution. The admission counselling committee shall forthwith forward the demand draft to the respective institutioncollegesuniversity. The necessity for including the above-mentioned requirement has arisen as it has been time and again noticed that when students report to the college after the counselling they are refused admission by the colleges on some pretext or the other and it is shown by the college as if the student never reported to the college for admission.“
After the completion of counseling, the state government shall determine the number of seats that are still vacant and thereafter shall forward a list of students in order of merit, equaling to 10 times the number of vacant seats to the medical college so that in case of any stray vacancy arising in any college the said seat may be filled up from the said list, the SC said.
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