Govt replies to plea against NRI quota in med colleges

Govt replies to plea against NRI quota in med colleges 

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Bhopal/Jabalpur : The state govt on Monday presented its reply in response to a petition filed in the MP high court challenging that all the seats under NRI quota in private medical colleges are restricted to only 8 branches of medical science, which remain high in demand. The bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf, who are hearing the pe- tition, asked for distribution of copies of the reply to all the parties in the case while fixing the case for hearing on December 18. Dr Ojas Yadav of Bhopal in his petition said that NEET prepared a list of eligible NRI candidates for admission. The NRI quota in private medical colleges of the state is 15 percent. There are normally 22 branches of medical science in a medical college but the NRI quota is applicable to only 8 branches, which attract the maximum number of students. 

Appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alok Bagrecha said that more NRI seats in branches which have a high demand among students affect the prospects of meritorious students as the seats in those branches gets drastically reduced. There are 545 seats in the 8 branches in question, 152 of them reserved for NRI. In a medical college at Bhopal, there are 8 post graduate seats in surgery, 4 of them reserved for NRIs. No seat has been allotted to gene- ral and SC candidates. He contended that NRI quota seats should be evenly distributed among all the branches. The reservation policy being followed by the state government is illegal. In several top branches, 40 to 50% have been reserved for the NRI students. The court had asked the respondents in the case to file replies on the petition. 

After receiving a reply from the state govt, the court asked for circulation of its copies among all the litigants involved in the case while deferring hearing of the case to December 18.