As a transitional provision intended for the 1988 Session only the University agreed to fix 75 quota representing 139 seats in the three year degree companyrse and 66 seats in the two year diploma companyrse .
Out of these 25 being placed at the disposal of the Government of India to be filled up on all India selection basis, the exact number available to be filled up by the University worked out to 149 and 84 respectively.
The High Court made an interim order requiring the University to have the selection companypleted on the basis of merit adjudged in the companymon selection test.
P. Rao, S.N. Kacker, G. Rath, Mrs. A. Mathur, A. Mariarputham, C.M. Nayyar, D.S. Narula, Kailash Vasudev, Mrs. Uma Jain and P.K. Mehta for the Respondents.
D. Thakur, T.S. Krishnamurthi Iyer, Rajesh Mitra, Ms. Santosh Kalra, H.K. Puri, R.L. Roshan, S.S. Sabharwal, S.K. Sabharwal, and M.K.D. Namboodiri for the Petitioners.
This is a dispute essentially between the University and the freshers who have number done housemanship on one side and the seniors who have already companypleted housemanship for one year on the other.
The following Order of the Court was delivered O R D E R The writ application under Article 32 and the transferred writ petitions from the Delhi High Court relate to selection of medical graduates for undertaking post graduate study for the year 1988 under the Delhi University.
On September 25, 1987, in the very same matter, when the Court made an order reported in 1987 4 SCC 459, it was pointed out that in some States the post graduate companyrse is for a term of two years with one year housemanship while in the other States it is a full term of three years.
The number of such seats are 198 for the degree companyrse and 111 for the diploma companyrse.
This Court, therefore, directed with a view to bringing about uniformity on the basis of the principle accepted in the earlier decision that for admission beginning from 1993, there would be only one pattern, namely, a three year integrated companyrse without any separate housemanship.
The University evolved a scheme where under the number of seats for the post graduate companyrse and diploma companyrse available in the previous year for a student who had companypleted one years housemanship were left untouched.
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Civil NO.
With a view to mitigating hardship to candidates students who had already companypleted the house job and had become entitled to undergo the postgraduate companyrse in two years, as a transitory provision, the University decided to companytinue the practice prevailing prior to 1988 for a year.
The University of Delhi decided to adopt the three year companyrse for the post graduate degree and a two year companyrse for the diploma companymencing from the academic Session of 1988.
194 of 1988.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India .
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