New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday Safe orders on petitions Belonging to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in NEET-PG admission.
A bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna said, “We are hearing this matter for two days, we should start counseling in the interest of the nation.”
The petitioners had challenged the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and 10 per cent reservation for EWS in All India Quota seats for postgraduate medical courses.
He opposed the government’s justification for imposing an income criterion of Rs 8 lakh to define the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), saying no study had been done.
The Center on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it would not accept a situation in which people falling in the OBC or EWS category, whether before or after the exercise of revisiting the annual income criterion of Rs 8 lakh. Be deprived of something that is legitimately due to them, PTI reported.
The Supreme Court gave an urgent hearing after the government sought an early hearing amid widespread protests by resident doctors of several hospitals in Delhi and other parts of the country over the delay in NEET-PG counselling.
The counseling was postponed due to the decision of the Center to reconsider the criteria for fixation of EWS quota and pendency of the case in the Supreme Court.
The Center, in its affidavit filed in the apex court, said it has decided to accept the recommendations of the three-member panel to retain the existing gross annual family income limit to define EWS at Rs 8 lakh or less.
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