Supreme Court seeks Telangana's response to petition on local quota in MBBS admissions
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court has directed the Telangana govt to file its response to a petition regarding the local quota in MBBS admissions in the state. The court issued these directions on Monday while hearing petitions filed by a few aspirants who urged to be accommodated in the counselling under the local quota.
The matter was posted for further hearing in four weeks. The aspirants were challenging the state govt's orders amending the local quota provisions.
A bench of Justices Prashanth Kumar Mishra and Augustine George Masih, while directing all parties to file their responses by the next date of hearing, also allowed the aspirants to mention their case during the partial court work during the vacation in case of any urgency.
The bench provided this relaxation when the aspirants claimed that counselling for MBBS admissions would start immediately after the results are declared on June 14.
During the hearing, the aspirants claimed that they were born in Telangana and that their parents were also born in the state.
The petition challenges the Telangana Medical and Dental Colleges Admission (Admission into MBBS & BDS Courses) Rules, 2017, as amended in 2024.
According to the amended rule, students seeking admission to Telangana medical colleges must have studied in the state for four consecutive years before taking their qualifying exam.
The petitioners claimed that despite being born in Telangana and having completed most of their education in the state, the applicants became ineligible because they studied classes 11 and 12, or Intermediate, outside the state.
They also claimed that the govt passed the amendment after the academic year had started, at a time when they had already been admitted to courses outside the state. When the Supreme Court advised applicants to approach the high court for redress, they argued that the high court could not rule on the matter as their case was now before the Supreme Court.
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