Supreme Court upset over 1,450 vacant seats in NEET-PG

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Medical Counselling Committee for leaving greater than 1,450 seats vacant in NEET-PG-21, saying it won’t solely put the aspirants in a spot however would additionally result in a dearth of docs.

A trip bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose gave 24-hours to the Centre and the MCC to file an affidavit indicating the place remaining vacant seats and the explanations as to why they weren’t crammed up. The courtroom posted the matter for additional listening to on Thursday.

The bench was listening to a batch of petitions looking for a particular stray spherical of counselling to fill the 1,456 seats which have remained vacant after the conduct of a stray spherical of counselling in All India Quota. “Even if there is a single vacant seat it should not have gone unfilled…After every round of counselling, this is the same problem. Why can’t the process be streamlined?” the bench remarked.

The Directorate General of Health Services filed an affidavit saying it has concluded 4 rounds of on-line counselling and can’t fill the 1,456 seats by conducting a particular stray spherical of counselling because the software program stands closed. 

The DGHS stated the prayer of the petitioners for a particular stray spherical of counselling is at a belated stage and can disrupt the entire course of for the upcoming session because the counselling for 2 educational classes can not run concurrently.