The Madras High Court has refused to interfere with the Tamil Nadu government’s practice of providing incentive marks for admission in post graduate (PG) medical courses to government doctors who had served in rural, remote and hilly areas after completion of their MBBS course.
Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu held that the court need not interfere with a policy decision of the State government when the objective behind the grant of incentive marks was “laudable and benevolent” and such practice was not barred by any statute, rule or regulation.
Disposing of writ petitions filed by some PG medical seat aspirants, the Bench said that neither Regulation 9(4) of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000, nor a Government Order issued on November 7, 2020, for providing incentive marks suffered from the vice of arbitrariness.
