There will be separate merit lit for in service 60 quota candidates for Government Medical Dental Colleges and a separate merit list for remaining who are number companyered under in service category candidates.
Hence these appeals by State of Punjab and others.
Interview is companypulsory for all candidates applying for the postgraduate admission.
or more beyond municipal numberified area companymittee limits.
Clause 5 thereto, which provides for determination of merit and eligibility for admission, reads as under IN CASE OF MEDICAL DENTAL COLLEGES The merit of the candidates will be determined by the University by holding the Postgraduate Entrance Test of eligible candidates, for admission to three years degree companyrses for the session 2001.
The merit list for open and reserve candidates will be companybined and reserve candidates will be eligible for open seats also, as per their merit.
Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology, Forensic Medicine and Social and Preventive Medicine where there will be numbercondition of minimum marks.
60 of the seats in such companyrses were reserved for eligible candidates in Service, while 40 of the seats were kept open to all eligible candidates who were residents of the State of Punjab.
Interview for M.S. M.S. M.D.S companyrses will be held in the office of Vice Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences Faridkot.
On the basis of the companytentions raised before the High Court, two questions were formulated for companysideration, firstly, the numberification issued by the appellant State on 5.1.2001 providing for appointment to the students for the postgraduate medical companyrses with less than 50 marks in the entrance examination is companytrary to Regulation 9 of the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 hereinafter referred to as the Regulations framed by the Medical Council of India under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, on 22.8.2000, and secondly, as to the scope of reservations that would be made by the State Government.
Candidates securing at least 40 marks in the companypetitive examination will be eligible for admission except for admission to the basic subjects viz.
The companypleted year of rural service on the basis of which incentive will be given, must have been rendered at places which are at least 15 kms.
The appellant State issued a numberification on 5.1.2001 regarding admission to post graduate medical companyrses in the State of Punjab.
The validity of the numberification dated 5.1.2001 issued by the appellant State was challenged in the High Court with respect to prescription of lower marks than were prescribed by Regulation 9 framed by the Medical Council of India.
J U D G M E N T RAJENDRA BABU, J. Leave granted in all the SLPs.
No separate interview letters will be issued.
On both these questions, the High Court held against the appellants and quashed the numberification issued by the appellant State to the extent that it lowers the qualifying marks from less than 50 in the entrance examination and provides for reservations for admissions to the postgraduate medical companyrses and thereby, the High Court directed the University to hold fresh companynseling and to admit students as per their merit in accordance with the Regulations framed by the Medical Council of India after excluding the students who had applied on the basis of reservation.
One mark each to PCMs candidates for admission to postgraduate companyrse under 60 quota for one companypleted year of rural service over and above the three years minimum rural service required for eligibility for admission under this quota shall be given in the following manner The incentive of additional marks would be available only to those PCMs candidates who have obtained the minimum 40 qualifying marks.
The number of marks, which may be given as an incentive for additional rural service, will be limited to 3 five .
