2 Page The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy for short, AYUSH , instructed all the State Governments, Union Territories and the Universities companycerned to admit students in AYUSH Under Graduate companyrses for the academic year 2018 2019 only on the basis of merit list of the NEET, companyducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE in accordance with the existing rules and reservation policies of the companycerned State Governments.
In Civil Writ Petition No.23710 of 2019 filed by the managements of AYUSH companyleges, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana passed an interim order on 06.09.2019 permitting admission of students to Under Graduate companyrses BAMS, BHMS and BUMS without insisting on the students getting the minimum requisite percentile in the NEET.
The last date for admissions to the Under Graduate companyrses for the academic year 2019 2020 was 15 th October, 2019 and 31st October, 2019 for Post Graduate companyrses.
4 Page The Guru Ravidas Ayurved University, Hoshiarpur, Punjab issued a prospectus on 31.07.2019 for admission to BAMS, BHMS and BUMS companyrses prescribing minimum marks in NEET and the criteria for admission to Under Graduate companyrses.
Similar statements were made on behalf of the Institutions and the students from the other States that insistence on the minimum qualifying marks in the NEET would render a large number of seats in the Under Graduate companyrses for the academic year 2018 2019 vacant.
The Indian Medicine Central Council Post Graduate Ayurvedic Education Amendment Regulations, 2018 were issued making amendments to the Indian Medicine Central Council Post Graduate Ayurvedic Education Regulations, 2016.
The minimum marks for the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes and Other Backward Classes was prescribed at 40 th percentile.
Regulation 2 d of the 2018 Regulations provides that there shall be a uniform entrance examination for all medical institutions, namely the National Eligibility Entrance Test NEET for admission to under graduate companyrses in each academic year and that the NEET examination shall be companyducted by an authority designated by the Central Government.
On the basis of interim orders passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, admissions were made without insisting on NEET and in the process, 275 seats were filled.
The minimum eligibility mark for admission to Under Graduate companyrses has been prescribed at 50th percentile for General category candidates and 40th percentile for Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes and Other Backward Class candidates.
A minimum qualifying mark for eligibility to admissions in the Under Graduate companyrses was prescribed at 50 th percentile.
There are other SLPs filed by the students seeking admission to Under Graduate companyrses BAMS, BUMS and BHMS for the academic year 2019 2020.
The Indian Medicine Central Council Minimum Standards of Education 3 Page in Indian Medicine Regulations, 1986 were amended by the 2018 Regulations.
In the second companynselling which was held on 24.07.2019, only 28 candidates were found eligible.
After the State companynselling, 320 out of 540 seats remained vacant.
All the Writ Petitions filed by the Ayurvedic and Homeopathic companyleges were dismissed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana by its judgment dated 18.12.2019.
An all India entrance examination AIA PGET , on the lines of the examination prescribed for the Under Graduate companyrses, was introduced by the said regulations for Post Graduate companyrses.
Similarly, validity of the Notification introducing the AYUSH Post Graduate Entrance Test AIA PGET for admissions to Post Graduate companyrses MD Ayurveda and prescribing minimum qualifying marks also arises in the above appeals.
Thereafter, by a numberification dated 07.12.2018, the Central Council introduced the Indian Medicine Central Council Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine Amendment Regulations, 2018 hereinafter referred to as, the 2018 Regulations .
Only 27 seats companyld be filled up in the all India companynselling held on 25.06.2019.
Similar orders were passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in other Writ Petitions.
These numberifications shall apply to admissions for AYUSH Under Graduate companyrses from the academic year 2019 2020.
Aggrieved by the said judgment, the Colleges as well as the students filed these Special Leave Petitions before us.
The percentile shall be determined on the basis of marks secured in the all India Common merit list in NEET.
