MCI has no role to play in percentage of seat sharing: HC

Updated on: Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Madras High Court today held that the Medical Council of India (MCI) has no role to play in percentage of seat sharing between state governments and private medical colleges.

A division bench of the court comprising justices D. Murugesan and M Duraiswamy was disposing a writ appeal by MCI against a single judge's order that it could not ask Mookambigai Medical College to surrender seven seats in the coming academic year as it had admitted the same number in 2009 after the government failed to fill its share of 50 seats.

The college submitted they had shared 100 seats on a 50-50 basis with the government. Last year, the government had sent only 43 students. As they did not want to keep seven seats vacant, they had admitted students on merit on government fixed fees.

This year, MCI ordered them to surrender seven seats of the quota taken last year to the government, the college said and demanded quashing of the order.

The judges said MCI had power to regulate admissions only if admission was made over and above the sanctioned strength.

If the institute had been permitted to admit only 100 students, but admitted one more, it could interfere and not if the seats were filled within the sanctioned strength, the bench held.

MCI has no role to play in percentage of seat sharing: HC

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