The Supreme Court on Monday noted that the Union government should be able to convincingly show that the drastic drop in the qualifying percentile of NEET-PG 2025 counselling, which was reported by the bench as practically reducing it to zero, does not erode the quality of medical education in the country.
Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe, sitting on a bench, raised the issue of the possible effects of the reduced cut-off on academic standards. You will need to prove to us that this radical decrease in the cut-off has no impact on the quality of education. We care what the medical education is like, the court informed the counsel of the Centre. The court of appeal gave a notice on a set of petitions questioning the ruling and gave the next week to hear the case once more.
The petitioners were represented by senior advocates Pinki Anand, Gopal Sankaranarayanan and DS Naidu whereas the Union government was represented by the Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati.
The Centre in its affidavit justified the decision by saying that NEET-PG is intended to provide a merit based ranking to allocate scarce postgraduate seats, and not to confer minimum clinical competence. The government claimed that clinical competence is already delivered by qualification of MBBS and the candidates have to undergo 4.5 years of demanding academic training in various medical fields with a mandatory one-year of rotating internship.
The affidavit also pointed out that MBBS applicants should not only obtain over 50 percent marks in theory and practical examinations but also separately, and all NEET-PG applicants are already qualified and certified doctors.
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