The Supreme Court on June 9 indicated that ‘stray’ rounds of counselling to fill over 1,400 vacant seats in NEET PG 2021 cannot go on forever while the government said candidates did not opt for these seats, which are mostly for non-clinical courses, despite nine rounds of counselling.
Appearing before a Vacation Bench of Justices M.R. Shah and Aniruddha Bose, Additional Solicitor General Balbir Singh, for the Health Ministry, submitted that out of a total 1,456 vacant seats in NEET PG 2021, over 1,100 were allocated to private medical colleges while the government had 300 vacant seats.
“Non-clinical courses are for those who prefer an academic life. They would not be medical doctors but would be qualified to teach subjects such as anatomy, etc. Very difficult to get such jobs. So students do not opt for these courses though there are seats available,” the law officer explained.
