NEET BDS 2021 aspirants move SC again seeking reduction of cutoff percentile
New Delhi: Supreme Court once again agreed to hear the plea by NEET BDS 2021 aspirants who have now moved to the court challenging the recent order by the Union Health Ministry, which refused to lower the cutoff percentile for BDS admissions for the academic year 2021-2022.
Approaching the Apex Court bench comprising of Justice Chandrachud, the counsel for the aspirants, Senior Advocate Paramjit Singh Patwalia sought urgent listing of the plea. The bench has listed the matter for further hearing on Wednesday.
This comes after recently the top court bench had directed the Union Health Ministry for fresh consideration on the matter of lowering the cutoff percentile for the BDS aspirants.
As per the latest media report by Live Law, such a direction was given by the top court bench on May 1 after it took note of the fact that the last date for BDS admissions had been extended from April 11 to May 15 and the Executive Committee of the Dental Council of India (DCI) in its meeting dated 06.04.2022, had also recommended the centre for reducing the qualifying percentile.
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