SC slams Medical Counselling Committee over vacant NEET PG seats
New Delhi, June 8: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) to ensure that not a single NEET PG seat should go waste and slammed the board for "playing with the future" of medical students.
The apex court stated that not a single must remain unfilled, adding that you are "playing with the future of students". The court further asked the MCC to file an affidavit on the plea seeking to conduct a Special Stray Round of counselling to allow the candidates to participate in the vacant seats which are available after the conduct of the stray vacancy round of All India Quota (AIQ).
The vacation bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose directed counsel for the MCC and the Centre to produce an affidavit explaining why seats were vacant today during the course of the day.
The court has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow.
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During the hearing, the court expressed dismay that 1,456 seats remained vacant.
MCC's counsel sought more time to file an affidavit in this regard. The MCC counsel also stated that 2022 counselling will be postponed, which will have a cascading effect.
Slamming the board for no streamlining process, the bench questioned, "Do you know the stress level of students?"
The top court also expressed dismay after learning that the MCC was aware of the vacant seats in May and asked, "What will you get by keeping seats vacant when we need doctors and super-specialists?"
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