The Court after companysidering institutional and residential preferences for admission to the M.B.S.S. companyrse, said that different companysiderations would prevail in companysidering such reservations for admission to the Post Graduate Courses such as M.D., M.S. and the like.
The study also found that the differences in the abilities of special companysideration students were more evident in the first and second years of the curriculum.
Later on, the minimum qualifying marks for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes were reduced to 0.
In the third year also the differences were visible.
However, when both these groups graduated from medical school both the groups had a high rate of successful graduation though the general group had a statistically significant higher rate.
On this scale, the students who received special companysideration admission had an average score of nine while the students who were admitted on open merit had an average of 11.
By G.O. dated 7.6.1997 the State of Madhya Pradesh prescribed the following minimum percentage of qualifying marks for the reserved category candidates to make them eligible for companynselling and admission to the Post Graduate Medical Courses Scheduled Castes 20 Scheduled Tribes 15 Other Backward Classes 40 This Government Order of the State of Madhya Pradesh is under challenge before us.
The special group had a graduation rate of 94 while the general group had a graduation rate of 98.
