Won’t interfere: HC on MP domicile in PG med admission

Won’t interfere: HC on MP domicile in PG med admission

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Bhopal:24.09.2021

A division bench of MP high court refused to interfere with a decision of the state government which provides for preferential treatment to domicile of MP and MBBS students passing out of medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh in the admission to PG medical courses. The court said that a petition on the issue is pending in the Supreme Court, therefore they can't interfere in the matter.

In the petition filed by the Association of Private Medical Universities, legality of section (2) and sub-section (3 & 4) of section 13 (d) was challenged. Under these rules, only domicile of MP, and those students who have done their MBBS from a medical college in the state, would be called for in the first round of counselling for admission into PG medical courses. This amounts to 100 percent reservation and is in violation of the Supreme Court order in the Pradeep Jain case, the petition said.

The state government in response had said that it has the powers to frame rules for admission in the private medical colleges. Half the PG seats in medical colleges are in the central quota. There is no reservation in practice and a domicile of MP and a student who has done his or her MBBS from the state has a greater chance to stay back in the state after completing their education. It further said that the order passed by the Supreme Court in the Pradeep Jain case has been challenged in the apex court and the case is pending.