Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 29: High Court today rescued the career of Economically Weaker Section (EWS) person and directed the authorities to grant admission to him in MBBS course in the next academic session.
The aggrieved candidate Basit Khurshid was denied admission despite being a meritorious candidate belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) category as such approached the portals of court seeking his grievance redressed.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal directed to ensure that the meritorious candidate belonging to the poor strata of the society is not deprived of an opportunity to get an admission in the MBBS course just because of the indolence/inaction of the competent authority under the J and K Reservation Act, 2005.
“Respondent No. 2 shall take appropriate measures for enhancing the total seats by one seat, so as to accommodate the petitioner in the next academic session.”
The court observed that the select list issued by BOPEE revealed that 12 candidates having NEET score of 461 and 404 were selected under EWS category and Basit was having NEET score of 462 but because of non-availability of EWS certificate, he was not considered for selection under EWS category.
Basit participated in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate course for the session 2024-25 (NEET-UG-2024-25) under the EWS category. On 9 August last year, the candidates belonging to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, who qualified NEET-UG-2024-25 having scored cut off marks prescribed by NTA, were directed to register themselves and to upload the required documents online from 19 to 23 August so that the provisional merit list of such eligible candidates was prepared. Basit possessed the EWS certificate having a life till 3 August 2024 and as per him, he immediately applied for the renewal of the certificate on 4 August 2024. Authorities concerned thereafter issued a provisional merit list on 25 August 2024, wherein Basit was shown to have secured the rank of 462 under the EWS category with the remarks “Form Deficient”. As soon he came to know regarding the remarks made in the provisional list, he submitted a representation with the authorities stating therein that EWS certificate issued in his favour was valid only till 3 August 2024 and he had applied for renewal of the same. BOPEE notified the schedule for conduct of counseling commencing from 28 to 31 August and it was provided that the candidates having failed to submit category certificates till the cut off date i.e. August 23 will be converted into the Open Merit category.
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