NEET MDS Counselling 2021 in Four Weeks: Union Government Tells Supreme Court

NEET MDS Counselling 2021: As per the updates, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)-MDS 2020 will be conducted virtually within four weeks. The Union government has informed the Supreme Court of India. The counselling will be held as per the existing reservation policies. The Supreme Court had asked the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on 12th July to announce the date of NEET-MDS 2021 counselling within a week.

Justice DY Chandrachud said "Make a statement now. The Ministry of Health is just dilly-dallying. These are hands-on courses and these doctors will be in service of patients." The court said that it hopes that the central government is conscious of the consequences of the delay in NEET-MDS counselling being faced by the students.

Reason for Delay in NEET MDS Counselling 2021

As per the reports, the delay in counselling occurred due to the clarification sought from the top court regarding the Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservations in All India Quota (AIQ) seats provided by the state medical colleges under the AIQ scheme. The ministry of health and family welfare replied that a petition of Saloni Kumari vs Director-General of Health remains pending in the top court along with several other petitions filed in Madras High Court regarding OBC reservations which have led to the delay.

Supreme Court Issues Notice to Centre Seeking Counselling Date Soon

Earlier on 2nd July, the Supreme Court in the hearing sought responses from the Centre and others. SC has now issued a notice to Medical Counselling Committee, MCC directing them to release the counselling date in the next three weeks. The plea came up for hearing before a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah and they agreed to hear it and issued notices to the Centre and others, including the Dental Council of India.

The Petition of NEET-MDS Counselling Dates

The plea filed through Advocates Tanvi Dubey and Charu Mathur said, "Umpteen efforts were made by the Petitioners to get in touch with the Respondents in order to get an idea about the schedule of the counselling." The petition calls the delay from MCC’s end “unjust and infinite.”

NEET MDS

The doctors, having Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS) degree, had appeared in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)-MDS conducted on December 16 last year by the National Board of Examination (NBE) for admission to the Master in Dental Surgery (MDS) course.