Tamil Nadu Govt doctors announce one day strike on May 8

It had said the issue of incentive marks and reservation for in-service government doctors and latest rules of Medical Council of India needed to be looked into comprehensively and also suggested that the Chief Justice be requested to constitute a special bench.

As per state norms,all doctors in government medical service are eligible for one mark per year of service with a cap of 10 marks. Those employed in four notified difficult and remote or hilly areas are eligible for two marks per year of service.

But MCI rules earmarked 10 per cent of an in-service candidate's National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET-PG mark as incentive per year of service with maximum of 30 per cent.

The single judge had on April 17 upheld MCI norms that incentive marks for in-service candidates should be awarded only based on MCI's PG Medical Education Regulations 2000 and not on the basis of the prospectus issued by the state government.