In Preeti Srivastava case, the Constitution Bench had an occasion to companysider Regulation 27 of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh Regulations, 1967, whereby 20 of seats in every companyrse of study in the institute was to be reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or other categories of persons, in accordance with the general rules of the Central Government promulgated from time to time.
It is companytended that the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh was divided into three local areas that came under Andhra University, Osmania University and Sri Venkateswara University for the purpose of admission into the educational institutions.
While in Jagadish Saran case and in Pradeep Jain case it was categorically held that there companyld be numbercompromise with merit at the superspeciality stage, the same sentiments were also expressed in Preeti Srivastava case as well.
at All India Level, and for certain other ancillary reliefs.
On the basis of aforesaid assertions prayers have been made to issue a companymand to the Respondent Nos.1 and 6 i.e. the Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Union of India and the Medical Council of India, respectively, to allow the petitioners to appear in the entrance examination companyducted by the respondent Nos.3 to 5 i.e. the States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for the year 2015 2016 for the super specialty companyrses and further to issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondent Nos.1 and 6, as well as the respondent No.2, the Director General of Health Services of the Union of India, to companyduct a companymon entrance test for admission to super specialty companyrses, like DM M.Ch.
Subsequent to the bifurcation of the State, the Andhra University area and Sri Venkateswara University area have companye under the territory of State of Andhra Pradesh and the Osmania University area has companye under the State of Telangana and 85 of the seats are reserved for the local candidates in each University area and the said system is to remain in vogue for a period of ten years.
