27-05-2025
HC directs admission to PG medical courses in GMCH-32 as per SC order
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court directed the Chandigarh administration to carry out admissions to PG medical courses at GMCH-32 as per the Shrey Goel Supreme Court judgment and March 24 SC order.
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On March 24, the SC held, "It was absolutely clear that residence-based reservations were not permissible for postgraduate seats in medical colleges and that only institutional preference, to a limited extent, is allowed."
In the Shrey Goel judgment, it was further held, "Having made the determination that residence reservation is impermissible in PG medical courses, the state quota seats, apart from a reasonable number of institution-based reservations, have to be filled strictly on the basis of merit in the All-India examination.
Thus, out of 64 seats which were to be filled by the state in its quota, 32 could be filled on the basis of institutional preference, and these are valid.
But the other 32 seats earmarked as UT Chandigarh pool were wrongly filled on the basis of residence."
The SC further held in the Shrey Goel judgment, "We make it clear though that our declaration of impermissibility of residence-based reservation in PG Medical courses will not affect such reservations already granted, and students are undergoing PG courses or have already passed out in the present case, from College, Chandigarh.
We do this simply because now there is an equity in favour of such students who must have already completed the course.
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The high court held, "The issue of the reservation in the post graduate medical courses has been put to rest by the Supreme Court in the Shrey Goel SC judgment. In the opinion of this court, once the matter(s) has been delved into by a Judge Bench of the Supreme Court, it is proscribed from raking up the same controversy again." MSID:: 121443225 413 |
