Supreme Courtroom asks Centre to make sure no seats stay vacant in medical faculties

The Supreme Courtroom of India has directed the Centre to convene a gathering with related stakeholders, together with state representatives, to handle the difficulty of vacant seats in medical programs. The Apex Courtroom emphasised that such seats should not stay unfilled and urged the Centre to think about the suggestions of a committee appointed to resolve the matter.
A two-judge bench comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Ok.V. Viswanathan made this statement whereas listening to the case, stating, “Seats additionally can’t go vacant.”
In keeping with PTI, the difficulty surfaced when the court docket was knowledgeable about unfilled super-speciality seats in medical programs. In response, the Centre proposed forming a committee comprising stakeholders, together with state representatives and personal medical faculties, chaired by the Director Normal of Well being Providers.
On January 3, 2025, the Centre’s counsel knowledgeable the court docket that the committee had been constituted and had submitted its suggestions. The counsel additional acknowledged that the Centre would maintain a gathering with stakeholders and suggest an answer based mostly on the committee’s suggestions.
The Supreme Courtroom has directed the Centre to take crucial steps inside three months and scheduled the matter for listening to in April 2025.
The court docket highlighted the seriousness of the difficulty, recalling its statement from April 2023, the place it described the state of affairs as a “very sorry image” after 1,003 beneficial super-speciality seats remained vacant because of a scarcity of admissions.
(With inputs from PTI)