Twenty-eight students hailing from other parts of the
country will attend super-specialty medical courses in Tamil Nadu after
the Supreme Court of India(SCI)ordered the State to forgo its policy of reserving
seats for domiciled students in these advanced medical studies.
A
Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and C. Nagappan on Thursday July 14,2016 ordered the
State government to admit 28 candidates from other States who were
successful in cracking the exams held for super specialty courses for
the academic session 2016-2017. This year, out of a total 191 seats, 124
candidates had applied from outside Tamil Nadu. Of this, 94 took the
exam and 28 were selected.
On July 1,2016, the Bench said
medical education should not be cloistered from talents outside the
State and Tamil Nadu should unreservedly open its doors to the best of
doctors across the country.
The Centre, represented
by Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand, seconded the court’s
conclusion, submitting that advanced medical education should be “free
from the requirement of domicile and institutional preferences”.
“At
the super-speciality level of medical education, merit and not
reservation should be the criterion. Reservation de-meritorises merit.
Please keep the constitutional scheme under Article 14 (right of
equality) in mind,” Justice Misra addressed senior advocate Rakesh
Dwivedi, appearing for Tamil Nadu.
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