The Supreme Court backed the excessive court docket’s order junking the Punjab authorities’s notification
New Delhi:
The NRI quota system in faculty admissions was nothing however a fraud, the Supreme Court mentioned at this time because it dismissed the Punjab authorities’s enchantment towards a excessive court docket order that junked amended guidelines to avail admission to MBBS programs by means of this quota.
The Punjab authorities had, in a notification dated August 20, widened the definition of an NRI candidate and made family of Non-Resident Indians (NRI) eligible to hunt admission to the MBBS course beneath this quota. The Punjab and Haryana High Court shot down this notification, observing that this “opens the door for potential misuse”.
In the Supreme Court at this time, the Punjab authorities’s counsel mentioned that Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have been following a broad definition for NRI quota admissions. “HP, UP, Chandigarh, everyone seems to be following the definition which I’m saying… so solely I’m beneath (a) slim definition,” he mentioned.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud replied, “You are saying the closest relation of NRI may even be thought-about. what is that this? only a money-spinning tactic by the state.”
The bench, additionally comprising Justice JB Pardiwala, backed the excessive court docket order. “We should cease this NRI quota enterprise now! This is a whole fraud. This is what we’re doing to our training system,” the Chief Justice mentioned. “Look on the consequence. Those who obtained marks thrice excessive will not get admission,” he added. Justice Pardiwala mentioned all of the candidates are from India. “They are simply family, tai (aunt), taau (uncle), chacha, chachi.”
The Chief Justice mentioned, “What is a ward? you simply should say I’m taking care of X.” He mentioned the court docket can not again one thing that’s “blatantly unlawful”.
There are about 185 NRI quota seats in Punjab’s medical and dental faculties.