The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a petition by candidates seeking admission to postgraduate medical courses offered by the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in the all-India quota,demanding that the results of a re-test conducted by the university be overturned. The GGSIPU has 245 seats for its PG courses spread over two institutes Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and PGIMER at RML Hospital. Half of the 245 seats are reserved under the Institutional Preference category,which the GGSIPU calls the state quota. These seats are open only to MBBS students of GGSIPU. The university conducts a Common Eligibility Test (CET) to select students under the state quota. The other half of the 245 seats fall under the all-India quota,for which candidates must take the All India Entrance Test. The Director General of Health Services,in an affidavit to the HC,had submitted that vacant state quota seats can be transferred to all-India quota This year,the CET was held on April 2. Only 24 of 130 aspirants qualified from all categories. Subsequently,a group of students who failed to make the cut approached the Delhi High Court,alleging that the exam was not conducted properly. The court directed that a re-test be conducted on April 28. The GGSIPU,however,decided to conduct a re-test on May 26 for only the 96 vacant seats. The results of CET-2 were declared on May 28. On May 28,candidates for the all-India quota approached the Delhi High Court,asking it to restrain the GGSIPU from declaring the results of the re-test. They wanted the 96 seats left vacant under the state quota to be transferred to the all-India quota. The court refused to do so and allowed the GGSIPU to go ahead with the counselling session scheduled for May 29. The matter was heard on Monday,when the court allowed the university to admit the students,but with a rider admissions would be subject to the judgment on the petition. The matter will be heard on July 1. Meanwhile,candidates in the all-India quota have approached the Supreme Court,asking for a faster solution. The petition also argues that the intake of students eligible for the test be limited to 50 students,which is 50 per cent of the size of the eligible batch. The SC had ruled in an earlier case that institutional preference to be given to medical students against PG seats should remain confined to 50 per cent of the seats in MBBS, a petitioner said. The batch eligible to take the CET this year had only 100 students. The others came from previous batches, he added. Students demands* Vacant seats (under state quota) after CET be shifted to all-India quota* PG seats reserved under institutional preference be limited to 50% of MBBS batch
