On Friday, the Supreme Court allowed the resumption of consultations on NEET-PG and UG courses for the 2021-2022 school year in accordance with the existing retention norms.
Maintain a 27% Other Backward Class (OBC) quota in its Supreme Court. In terms of the 10% offer for the weaker economic segment (EWS) category, SC stated that it will follow the standard established in January 2019 this year.
The court decided to review the validity of the EWS standards developed by the Pandey Committee and listed these hearing applications in the third week of March. While retaining its order on Thursday, the court said that the consultation needs to start in the national interest.
As part of its submission, the center told the Supreme Court that the introduction of OBC and EWS reservations after the NEET-PG exam notice is not equivalent to “changing the rules of the game” midway.
The Deputy Attorney General Tushar Mehta, who appeared in court on behalf of the center, told judges DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna that the opinion that the OBC’s reservation was unconstitutional was not legally sustainable.
In recent days, residents of government hospitals have staged large-scale protests due to delays in the consultation process.
On December 31, after government guarantees and talks with the police, the riots that lasted for several weeks turned into violent incidents in Delhi in one day.
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