{"id":26021,"date":"2026-06-24T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/how-many-can-afford-private-hospitals-supreme-court-questions-move-to-surrender-152-tamil-nadu-medical-seats\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:24:53","slug":"how-many-can-afford-private-hospitals-supreme-court-questions-move-to-surrender-152-tamil-nadu-medical-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/how-many-can-afford-private-hospitals-supreme-court-questions-move-to-surrender-152-tamil-nadu-medical-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How many can afford private hospitals?&#8217; Supreme Court questions move to surrender 152 Tamil Nadu medical seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131963434,imgsize-112872,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/1280720-2026-06-24t152830483.jpg\" alt=\"'How many can afford private hospitals?' Supreme Court questions move to surrender 152 Tamil Nadu medical seats\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking to stop the transfer of 152 vacant in-service super-speciality medical seats in Tamil Nadu to the All India Quota (AIQ) for the 2025-26 academic year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>A bench of justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government and other respondents on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu Medical Officers Association. The court sought their responses and scheduled the matter for hearing in July.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>While hearing the case, the bench observed, &#8220;A government doctor, if (he or she) acquires skills, will serve public health better than a private doctor.&#8221; <!-- -->The court also noted that in-service candidates form a separate category because they are both working and studying at the same time.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The petition relates to 152 vacant in-service super-speciality seats in Tamil Nadu medical colleges that were earmarked for the state for the 2025-26 academic year. The association has asked the court to restrain authorities from surrendering these seats to the All India Quota until the counselling process reaches a later stage.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>It has also sought permission for in-service candidates in Tamil Nadu to compete for these seats during the third round of counselling or the mop-up round if the qualifying percentile is reduced below 50 per cent after the second round of AIQ counselling.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The issue had also been raised earlier this month by leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin. In a June 4 letter to chief minister C Joseph Vijay, he urged the state government to take steps to prevent the 152 seats from being surrendered to the All India Quota.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Referring to the 2025 NEET super-speciality counselling process, Stalin said that 215 of the 430 available seats in Tamil Nadu had been reserved for in-service government doctors. &#8220;Of these reserved seats, only 63 were filled during the counselling process and consequently, 152 seats remained vacant following the conclusion of the second round of counselling,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/how-many-can-afford-private-hospitals-supreme-court-questions-move-to-surrender-152-tamil-nadu-medical-seats\/articleshow\/131963325.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking to stop the transfer of 152 vacant in-service super-speciality medical seats in Tamil Nadu to the All India Quota (AIQ) for the 2025-26 academic year.A bench of justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}