The challenge in the writ petition was, inter alia, on the ground that the State Government having number submitted any application to the University as required under Section 64 of the Act, the decision taken by the State Government to set up a government run medical companylege at Kohlapur is invalid, and, that, the resolution of the State Government to set up government run medical companylege at Kohlapur being companytrary to the perspective plan prepared by the University, the impugned decision was illegal.
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It was, therefore, decided to keep 20 seats reserved for residents of said 62 Talukas in the proposed Government Medical College at Kolhapur.
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It is against the said judgment, the State of Maharashtra has preferred this appeal.
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The private medical companyleges where 50 seats are payment seats, the companyponent of free seats in Government Medical Colleges in rest of Maharashtra area is lowest, which would be clear from the following table Availability of Medical Seats as per population in three Development regions of Maharashtra State.
Shri Maninder Singh, learned companynsel representing Medical Council of India stated before us that the medical companyncil shall companyplete all the formalities within three months and send its report to the Central Government immediately thereafter.
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This decision of the government was challenged by the respondents through a Public Interest Litigation before the High Court of Bombay at Aurangabad.
N. KHARE, J. This appeal which is directed against the judgment of Bombay High Court passed in the writ petition gives rise to following two questions for our decisions 1 whether the State Government is required to submit an application to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences hereinafter referred to the University under Section 64 of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Act, 1998 hereinafter referred to as the Act for obtaining permission from itself, when it decides to establish a government run medical companylege within the State and 2 whether the perspective plan prepared by the University under the Act for educational development for the location of higher learning is binding on the State Government when the State Government resolves to set up a government run medical companylege within the State.
