Can candidates with speech and language benchmark disability seek MBBS admission? SC issues notice to NMC
While considering a plea challenging the 2019 Amendment to Graduate Medical Education Regulations 1997 that barred the candidates with speech and language benchmark disability (quantified at 40% or above) from availing reservation and get admitted to MBBS courses, the Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the National Medical Commission (NMC).
The counsel for NMC, the Apex medical body has been directed by the top court bench comprising of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Hima Kohli to reply in this regard within four weeks.
Filed by an MBBS aspirant who had been denied a seat in a medical college in Karnal due to his speech and language disability. The plea prays before the bench for invoking jurisdiction under Article 142 and allow her to pursue MBBS course in the allocated seat under reserved seats for persons with benchmark disabilities.
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