Overview
The Supreme Court has issued a notice on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association seeking to stop the surrender of 152 vacant Super Speciality seats for the academic year 2025‑26. The petition asks that these seats be kept for in‑service doctors and that the qualifying percentile be reduced before the seats are transferred to the All India Quota.
Key Developments
- Partial bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Joymalya Bagchi called for responses from the authorities and highlighted that cut‑offs for in‑service candidates should be lower because they serve in public health while studying.
- The earlier writ petition in the Tamilveni case directed the Tamil Nadu government to inform the Director General of Health Services about 151 unfilled seats.
- The petitioners argue that the second round of counselling for super‑speciality seats has not been conducted because of the Tamilveni order, and that surrendering seats now would prejudice in‑service doctors.
- Senior Advocate P Wilson emphasized that previous years saw a reduction in the qualifying pe