PG Medical Admissions: Punjab and Haryana HC Upholds Reallocation of UT Quota Seats to AIQ

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently upheld the decision of the Chandigarh administration to reallocate vacant Union Territory (UT) quota seats in postgraduate (PG) medical courses to the All India Quota (AIQ) seats.

Challenging the move, some of the PG medical aspirants had argued that the move violated the judgment of the Supreme Court. However, a Division bench of Justices Mahabir Singh Sindhu and H.S. Grewal dismissed the plea.

On June 3, the UT administration issued a notification that diverted unfilled UT Pool seats at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Chandigarh, to the AIQ pool.

As per the latest media report by the Indian Express, the petitioners had contended that these seats should have gone to the Institutional Preference (IP) category under the state quota for local candidates.

The counsel for the petitioners, Senior Advocate Gurminder Singh, submitted before the Court, "While taking a complete U-turn… without any authority of law and also in complete violation of Shrey Goel’s judgment, respondent No. 2 has issued the impugned public notice… wherein vacant U.T. Pool seats have been diverted to A.I.Q. against [the] maximum limit of 50%."

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Chandigarh PG Medical Admissions: HC Upholds Reallocation of UT Quota Seats to AIQ