Only States can provide bond reservations for PG medical admissions: MoS Health - Video

The concerned State Governments, and not the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI), now the National Medical Commission (NMC) can take the necessary initiative to provide reservations for the in-service candidates for admission to PG medical courses by executing bonds, the Union Minister of State for Health Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

While responding to the queries raised by Parliament member Dr. Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade, Minister Patel informed that even though previously the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 had provisions to grant incentive marks to doctors working in remote and difficult areas, the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court held in 2020 that the State has the legislative competence to provide for a separate source of entry for in-service candidates seeking admission to postgraduate degree/diploma courses in exercise of powers under Entry 25, List III.