The Supreme Court on Monday deferred the hearing on a petition moved by the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore seeking the quashing of the Selection Committee’s letter, whereby the state of Tamil Nadu sought to impose state quota of 50 percent in UG and PG courses in the petitioner medical college.
A Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B. R. Gavai deferred the hearing as the matter could not be taken up due to paucity of time. The minority-run institution is opposed to the Tamil Nadu government seeking seat sharing at 50-50 ratio from two lists prepared by the state government and the institution respectively for the admissions in the PG courses.
On January 19, the Apex Court had rejected CMC’s prayer for interim relief seeking permission to continue with the old method of selection, whereby students from over 23 zonal regions are admitted from lists sent by various Protestant churches/Christian organizations. The Court further directed the college to take PG admissions for the academic session 2021-2022 to be filled through the minority merit list prepared by Tamil Nadu.
Additional Advocate General Amit Anand Tiwari appearing for Tamil Nadu had argued that the NEET regulations clearly set out that admissions to both MBBS and PG have to be done from the NEET merit list.