Madras court says disability certificates not enough to get
MBBS seat
Disability certificates issued by the district medical
boards alone are not enough to get admission to MBBS courses under the disability
quota, the Madras high court has said.
The matter refers to a case filed by four candidates with
disabilities who had said they had been unfairly assessed and denied MBBS seats
by a selection committee, which subjected them to an examination by a team of
experts.
Justice KK Sasidharan, concurring with the submissions of
special government pleader D Krishnakumar and rejecting the case said:
The government has reserved 3% of the total number of seats
available in government medical/dental institutions for
orthopaedically/physically disabled candidates.
Seats under reserved quota should be given to eligible and
deserving candidates.
The seats should not be given solely on account of the
disability certificate produced by the district medical board notwithstanding
the fact that subject experts were not part of the board.
However, at the time of counselling they were put through a
fresh medical examination by a committee, which concluded that all four
suffered from either less than 40% disability or more than 70% disability. They
were denied admission.
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