HC nod to common councelling for medical admissions

Hyderabad, Aug 26: The common division bench Hyderabad High Court has given a nod to common counseling at National level for admissions into medical post graduate and super specialty courses, including under NTR University of Health Sciences and Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana respectively.

From this perspective, the medical graduates from other states would be eligible to take admissions into the colleges in the two Telugu states.

The Division Bench comprising of Justice V Ramasubramanian and Justice T Rajani in an elaborate 53-page interim judgment delivered on Thursday gave this green signal by vacating its earlier stay on common counseling have given on 17th of this month.

The Bench directed the Central Government to withdraw the orders of August 18 by which allotment of seats to the students from the two Telugu states in colleges in other states was canceled.

Meanwhile, Dr. Satish Kumar and 12 other medical post graduates challenged the order issued by Union Health Ministry on May 4 stipulating that the seats under NTR University and KNR University would also be filled up in the national counseling of NEET.

Some other petitions were also filed challenging the denial of seats in other states to students from Telugu states.