New Delhi: The Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea challenging the decision of the Nationwide Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to drastically reduce the qualifying cut-off percentiles for NEET-PG 2025-26.
A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe issued notices to the Union of India, the NBEMS, the Nationwide Medical Fee and others. The matter is listed for subsequent listening to on February 6.
With over 18,000 postgraduate medical seats throughout the nation remaining vacant, the Board revised the qualifying percentiles for NEET-PG 2025 admissions, decreasing it to zero from 40 percentile for reserved classes — which is able to make even these scoring as little as minus 40 out of 800 to participate within the third spherical of counselling for PG medical seats.
In accordance to the notice printed by NBEMS, the NEET PG cutoff for the final class has been decreased to seven percentile from 50.
The highest court docket was listening to a plea filed by social employee Harisharan Devgan, Dr Saurav Kumar, Dr Lakshya Mittal and Dr Akash Soni which submitted that the cut-off discount violates Article 14 and Article 21.
The plea contended that eligibility standards can’t be altered after graduation of the choice course of, as aspirants ready, competed, and made profession selections primarily based on the initially notified cut-offs.
The petition says that PG medical schooling can’t be handled as a industrial train and that regulatory authorities are required to forestall dilution of requirements.
A number of sections of the medical group have termed as “unprecedented and illogical” the NBEMS’s decision to drastically reduce the cut-off percentile for candidates throughout all classes for NEET-PG 2025-26.PTI
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