Also upholds 10% reservation for EWS category in All India Quota seats
The Supreme Court cleared the decks for postgraduate medical counselling and admissions, including OBC and EWS reservations for the current academic year, 2021-22
NEET Counselling 2021: SC order opens the way for the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) to begin the NEET UG and NEET PG counselling process
The Supreme Court reserved its order on a plea related to the Economically Weaker Section quota in connection with the NEET-PG admissions
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin announced an all-party meeting on Jan 8 to discuss the next course of action on the state's demand for exemption from NEET
The top court will continue to hear the matter on Thursday
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea related to the EWS quota in connection with the NEET-PG admissions on Wednesday
The Centre requested the Supreme Court to schedule a hearing in a matter related to the EWS quota in connection with the NEET-PG admissions on Tuesday, citing "some urgency"
Patient care had been affected at several major hospitals in Delhi in this period as resident doctors have been boycotting services to lodge their protest.
The strike is likely to affect the services at government hospitals
As doctors continue to protest across, it seems like there is no end to patients woes in the hospitals across India.Vandana, a patient's mother who came to RML hospital, said, "My son has a kidney-related disease. Doctors had asked to undergo some medical tests. Today my son was supposed to undergo an eye test and accordingly, an appointment was fixed. But due to the protest, no testing is happening in the hospital. My son was referred to this hospital from GTB hospital."A resident of Rohini said, "I came here to show my mother as she was having fever for the past eight months. When I reached here, no doctor is there inside the hospital. Everybody is participating in the ongoing protest. They asked me to come after a few days."Another patient from Dwarka said, "My wife has to undergo surgery on January 11. Before the surgery, a biopsy procedure needs to be completed. Now the doctors are protesting, the biopsy has been delayed for the time being. I dont know when then will conduct a ...
The meeting between a delegation of the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya took place at Nirman Bhawan
Mandaviya also expressed gratitude to the resident doctors and health care workers over the exemplary work done by them during the Covid crisis
Resident doctors of major government hospitals in Delhi protesting delays in holding NEET-PG counseling said that they will continue their agitation until their demands are met.
Protesting resident doctors have called for total shutdown of medical services in Delhi hospitals
Protest by a large number of resident doctors in Delhi over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling on Monday took a dramatic turn, as medics and police personnel faced off in streets
Intensifying their stir over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling, scores of resident doctors in Delhi on Monday symbolically 'returned their lab coats', and took out a march in streets.
The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) has been spearheading the protest for the last several days.
Due to legal impediments, the counselling is withheld resulting in a shortage of 45,000 doctors in the frontline, the IMA said
Scores of resident doctors in Delhi on Wednesday evening lit up 'diyas' in the campus of a medical college to register their protest over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling