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Supreme Court PIL Challenges NEET‑PG Cut‑Offs Lowered to Zero With Round‑3 Counselling Underway

Petitioners say the cut‑off revision violates constitutional guarantees, risking training quality to plug thousands of vacant postgraduate seats.

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Overview

  • NBEMS’s January 13 notice cut qualifying percentiles to 7th for General/EWS (~103 marks), 5th for General PwBD (~90), and 0th for SC/ST/OBC (reported at −40) to widen eligibility.
  • Harisharan Devgan, Dr Saurav Kumar, UDF president Dr Lakshya Mittal, and Dr Akash Soni filed a PIL (Diary No. 3085/2026) seeking to quash the notice for violating Articles 14 and 21.
  • The petition cites threats to patient safety and a conflict with the National Medical Commission Act’s mandate to uphold minimum standards in postgraduate medical education.
  • NBEMS says it acted on Health Ministry directions to optimise seat utilisation after roughly 18,000–20,000 seats remained vacant, a step officials describe as routine and not a direct seat offer.
  • The Medical Counselling Committee set Round‑3 timelines with choice filling from January 16–26, allotment on January 27, and results on January 29, as doctors’ bodies like FAIMA and FORDA demand a rollback.