In SC, govt defends 10-yr study criteria for PG medical seats
Ashish Tripathi, DH News Serice, New Delhi Mar 25 2018, 0:47 IST
According to the government, it is necessary to meet the state's requirement of skilled human resources. DH file photo
The Karnataka government has defended before the Supreme Court its criteria for Karnataka origin or minimum 10-year study requirement for candidates outside the state to get admission to Post Graduate seats in medical and dental colleges.
According to the government, it is necessary to meet the state's requirement of skilled human resources.
The state government also claimed that it has invested heavily in setting up medical colleges across the state with no help from the central government. It further said the government proposed to set up 14 more medical colleges in other districts and eight super-speciality hospitals, in addition to existing nine super-speciality hospitals, creating huge requirement of specialists to run these hospitals.
"Every year approximately Rs 2,000 crore is being spent on strengthening medical education in the state. The government of India is not assisting the state in establishing necessary infrastructure for post-graduate medical education and the entire manpower and infrastructure are being provided by the state," an affidavit submitted by the government stated. "This being so, the state of Karnataka has every right to formulate eligibility conditions to give preference to candidates who are most likely to serve the state," the affidavit added.
The Karnataka government said states like Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have also put similar eligibility conditions. It maintained that conditions would allow the merit candidates from the state to pursue post graduate education on subsidised seats and serve the people of the state.
This will also subserve the interest of medical and dental educational institutes by ensuring adequate number of specialists year after year, it said. In its response to a writ petition filed by Dr Kriti Lakhina and 39 others against the fresh notification by the Karnataka Examination Authority issued on March 10, the state government said the petitioners cannot say that they would be deprived of their rights to compete for seats in government medical and dental colleges as 2,301 seats woulds still be available for candidates who were not of Karnataka origin. Out of 3,435 posts of specialists in 11,615 public health care institutions in Karnataka, about 1,312 posts are vacant. In educational institutions, out of 2,700 posts of specialists, 517 are vacant. A total of 16 out of 39 medical colleges in Karnataka are run by the state.
Out of 970 senior resident posts in these medical colleges, 524 are vacant. "If these posts remained vacant beyond stipulation by the Medical Council of India, de-recognition looms large with the risk of jeopardising future of both undergraduate and post graduate students studying in these colleges," it said. It claimed that the doctors, belonging to other parts of the country, cannot claim any legal entitlement on the basis that they have graduated from the Karnataka medical or dental colleges.
Ashish Tripathi, DH News Serice, New Delhi Mar 25 2018, 0:47 IST
According to the government, it is necessary to meet the state's requirement of skilled human resources. DH file photo
The Karnataka government has defended before the Supreme Court its criteria for Karnataka origin or minimum 10-year study requirement for candidates outside the state to get admission to Post Graduate seats in medical and dental colleges.
According to the government, it is necessary to meet the state's requirement of skilled human resources.
The state government also claimed that it has invested heavily in setting up medical colleges across the state with no help from the central government. It further said the government proposed to set up 14 more medical colleges in other districts and eight super-speciality hospitals, in addition to existing nine super-speciality hospitals, creating huge requirement of specialists to run these hospitals.
"Every year approximately Rs 2,000 crore is being spent on strengthening medical education in the state. The government of India is not assisting the state in establishing necessary infrastructure for post-graduate medical education and the entire manpower and infrastructure are being provided by the state," an affidavit submitted by the government stated. "This being so, the state of Karnataka has every right to formulate eligibility conditions to give preference to candidates who are most likely to serve the state," the affidavit added.
The Karnataka government said states like Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have also put similar eligibility conditions. It maintained that conditions would allow the merit candidates from the state to pursue post graduate education on subsidised seats and serve the people of the state.
This will also subserve the interest of medical and dental educational institutes by ensuring adequate number of specialists year after year, it said. In its response to a writ petition filed by Dr Kriti Lakhina and 39 others against the fresh notification by the Karnataka Examination Authority issued on March 10, the state government said the petitioners cannot say that they would be deprived of their rights to compete for seats in government medical and dental colleges as 2,301 seats woulds still be available for candidates who were not of Karnataka origin. Out of 3,435 posts of specialists in 11,615 public health care institutions in Karnataka, about 1,312 posts are vacant. In educational institutions, out of 2,700 posts of specialists, 517 are vacant. A total of 16 out of 39 medical colleges in Karnataka are run by the state.
Out of 970 senior resident posts in these medical colleges, 524 are vacant. "If these posts remained vacant beyond stipulation by the Medical Council of India, de-recognition looms large with the risk of jeopardising future of both undergraduate and post graduate students studying in these colleges," it said. It claimed that the doctors, belonging to other parts of the country, cannot claim any legal entitlement on the basis that they have graduated from the Karnataka medical or dental colleges.
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