Supreme Court Order on NEET PG admissions

January 7, 2022

On January 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of India allowed the commencement of counselling process for NEET-PG and NEET-UG for academic year 2021-22 admissions, based on the existing quota system. Court has upheld the constitutionality of 27% OBC reservation.

Highlights

After supreme court’s order, counselling process would start on the basis of 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and 27% quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC), in All India Quota.
SC allowed the existing criteria to operate for current academic year, as regards criteria to determine EWS (8 lakhs gross annual income cut-off), in order to avoid delay in the admission process further.
But, future application of EWS criteria will be subject to final outcome of the petitions. The EWS criteria was stipulated in the Office Memorandum of July 2019.

Recommendation of Pandey Committee

Supreme Court has accepted the recommendations of the Pandey committee. Pandey Committee had given following recommendations:

To use the criteria for EWS stipulated in OM 2019 (for EWS), in a bid to ensure that the admission process is not dislocated.
It recommended to conduct counselling on the basis of NEET PG 2021 and NEET UG 2021, by giving effect to resolution provided by the notice of July 29, 2021. It recommended to go with 27% reservation for OBC and 10% reservation for EWS in All India Quota seats.
It recommended to use criteria for determination of EWS notified by OM 2019, for identifying the EWS category who appeared in NEET UG 2021 and NEET PG 2021 examinations.
Validity of the criteria determined by Pandey committee to identify the EWS prospectively in future be subject to final results of the petitions.
Based on the recommendations of committee, petition will be listed for final hearing on validity of EWS criteria, in the third week of March 2022.

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