Uniform NMC mechanism to ensure PG medical seats don't go vacant- Supreme Court to hear plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a key petition seeking directions to the National Medical Commission (NMC) to create a uniform mechanism ensuring that no postgraduate medical seats remain vacant across medical colleges in the country. The plea also asked the Commission to place on record data from the past five years showing how many such seats went unfilled nationwide.
The matter will be taken up by a bench comprising Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justices K. Vinod Chandran and N.V. Anjaria. The issue of vacant PG and super-speciality seats has repeatedly drawn judicial concern, with the Supreme Court earlier emphasising that medical seats cannot be allowed to go waste.
According to a recent PTI report, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking direction to the National Medical Commission to devise a mechanism so that no postgraduate seats go vacant in pre-clinical and para-clinical branches across medical colleges in India.
The petition has also sought a direction to the commission to produce data of how many seats have remained vacant in the last five years in the postgraduate pre-clinical and para-clinical branches.
The plea would be heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria.
While hearing a separate plea in January this year, the apex court had observed that seats in medical courses cannot remain vacant.
It had asked the Centre to hold a meeting with relevant stakeholders, including the states, to address the issue.
In April 2023, the top court flagged the issue of super-speciality seats in medical courses remaining unfilled.
The Centre had then proposed to appoint a committee, consisting of all the stakeholders including representatives of states and private medical colleges, under the chairmanship of the director general of health services to resolve the issue.
