The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the State government and the Medical Council of India on a plea by two rank-holder doctors, challenging preference being given to the in-service candidates, instead of merit, in admission to PG courses.
A vacation bench of Justices A K Sikri and U U Lalit admitted the petition by Dr Saikumar V, medical officer of Krishnarajendra Hospital, Mysuru and Dr Pradeep Kumar H D of Government McGann Hospital of Shimoga Institute of Medical Sciences for hearing on Monday (May 25).
The court, however, refused to pass any interim direction even as senior advocate S Guru Krishna Kumar and advocate Nishanth Patil, sought stay on the Karnataka High Court's order of April 30.
The counsel contended that the HC had erroneously allowed slab system for admission to PG courses through Karnataka State PGET 2015, instead of relying on merit, in violation of the MCI guidelines and the apex court rulings.
“As per faulty slab system, merit lists are prepared based on the length of the service of the in-service candidates, i.e, preference is given to the first slab (persons who have completed five years of regular service) than to persons in second slab (persons who have completed four years of service) and lastly to the third slab (persons who have completed three years of service),” they claimed.
“If the High Court's order is allowed to sustain, the country would be deprived of meritorious candidates and left with only undeserving candidates who have secured much lesser scores and in all likelihood are less competent doctors.
In that event, the public at large would suffer as they would be at mercy of such incompetent doctors and the meritorious candidates may not be in a position to serve the country at all,” they added.The counsel claimed that after the HC order, a revised list was announced in May wherein Dr Pradeep Kumar, who was placed at rank no. one in the merit list of autonomous candidates list (issued in March 2015, solely on the basis of merit) has now been placed at no. 15 owing to the implementation of slab system.
Dr Saikumar, who was placed at rank 10, has now been placed at rank 19. The petitioners said since the Medical Council of India was the fundamental authority governing the conduct of doctors in the country, the State government was incompetent to legislate on the issue.
“There are limited seats for autonomous institution candidates. Although petitioner number 2 has stood first and has secured more marks than anybody in the examination, he may not be able to procure a single seat in the PG course,” they claimed.
A vacation bench of Justices A K Sikri and U U Lalit admitted the petition by Dr Saikumar V, medical officer of Krishnarajendra Hospital, Mysuru and Dr Pradeep Kumar H D of Government McGann Hospital of Shimoga Institute of Medical Sciences for hearing on Monday (May 25).
The court, however, refused to pass any interim direction even as senior advocate S Guru Krishna Kumar and advocate Nishanth Patil, sought stay on the Karnataka High Court's order of April 30.
The counsel contended that the HC had erroneously allowed slab system for admission to PG courses through Karnataka State PGET 2015, instead of relying on merit, in violation of the MCI guidelines and the apex court rulings.
“As per faulty slab system, merit lists are prepared based on the length of the service of the in-service candidates, i.e, preference is given to the first slab (persons who have completed five years of regular service) than to persons in second slab (persons who have completed four years of service) and lastly to the third slab (persons who have completed three years of service),” they claimed.
“If the High Court's order is allowed to sustain, the country would be deprived of meritorious candidates and left with only undeserving candidates who have secured much lesser scores and in all likelihood are less competent doctors.
In that event, the public at large would suffer as they would be at mercy of such incompetent doctors and the meritorious candidates may not be in a position to serve the country at all,” they added.The counsel claimed that after the HC order, a revised list was announced in May wherein Dr Pradeep Kumar, who was placed at rank no. one in the merit list of autonomous candidates list (issued in March 2015, solely on the basis of merit) has now been placed at no. 15 owing to the implementation of slab system.
Dr Saikumar, who was placed at rank 10, has now been placed at rank 19. The petitioners said since the Medical Council of India was the fundamental authority governing the conduct of doctors in the country, the State government was incompetent to legislate on the issue.
“There are limited seats for autonomous institution candidates. Although petitioner number 2 has stood first and has secured more marks than anybody in the examination, he may not be able to procure a single seat in the PG course,” they claimed.
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