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NEET counselling for super speciality courses stayed
The High Court at Hyderabad has stayed the NEET common counselling proposed to be held for admissions into Super Specialities Courses in medicine, such as DM/MCh for the colleges affiliated to Dr NTR University of Health Sciences and Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. It directed the Union Ministry of Health, the Director General of Health Services and National Board of Examination
Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad has stayed the NEET common counselling proposed to be held for admissions into Super Specialities Courses in medicine, such as DM/MCh for the colleges affiliated to Dr NTR University of Health Sciences and Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. It directed the Union Ministry of Health, the Director General of Health Services and National Board of Examination to file their counters within a week.
The division bench comprising Justice V Ramasubramanian and Justice T Rajani gave this interim order on Thursday in the writ petition filed by Dr B Satish Kumar and 11 others who are postgraduates in medicine and who have applied for admission to Super Speciality Courses in various colleges in the States of Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh.
The petitioners challenged the communication sent by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, dated May 4, 2017, informing the National Board of Examination that there would be a common counselling for all seats of NEET-Super Specialities at the National-level to be conducted by Directorate General of Health Services.
Senior counsel S Satyam Reddy, in his arguments, contended that admission into professional courses in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are governed by the Presidential Order issued under Article 371-D of the Constitution and that since these Presidential Orders are to have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other part of the Constitution, the respondents are not entitled to conduct a common counselling at the National-level, for the seats coming within the control of the two Universities in Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh.
The bench, in its interim order, observed that “Article 371-D was inserted, with the avowed object of removing regional imbalances within the combined State.
It was not introduced for the purpose of removing the imbalances between the State of Andhra Pradesh vis-à-vis other States of the country. Therefore, the process of rationalisation through nationalisation, of admission to super specialities, should not normally be scuttled by any regional sentiments. But we are nevertheless bound by the law as it exists today.”
Noting this, it stayed the counselling for the super speciality seats and posted the case to August 24, so that the issue could be decided before the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court for admission into these courses.
