The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea to direct the government and the Medical Counselling Committee to conduct a “special” stray round of counselling to fill up 1,456 vacant seats from NEET-PG 2021.
A Vacation Bench of Justices M.R. Shah and Aniruddha Bose said another round of counselling at this point of time would affect medical education and create confusion, which, in turn, would affect public health.
The Bench noted that the seats had remained vacant despite eight to nine rounds of counselling. They were hardly any takers for these seats mainly for non-clinical courses. The counselling for NEET PG 2021 has now finally been closed. The 2021 academic year has already been delayed by 1.5 years.
