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NEET MBBS admission: The National Medical Commission (NMC) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that symptoms of mental illness will no longer be a bar to further study in the MBBS course and after better methods of disability assessment are devised, such candidates will be eligible. For future entry. Reservation benefits may be considered. On May 18, the Supreme Court asked the NMC, which regulates medical education in the country, to test the developed methods of disability assessment of students with mental illnesses, special learning disorders and autism spectrum disorders to grant reservation for admission to MBBS courses. Asked to form a panel of experts.
Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice JB. A bench of Justices Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra noted the arguments of Gaurav Kumar Bansal, advocate appearing for a candidate seeking admission to MBBS, that many countries not only allow persons suffering from mental illnesses to pursue medical education, but they are also Reservation is given in admission.
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The Supreme Court allowed Bansal to amend his petition challenging the new guidelines of the NMC on the issue of admitting persons with mental illness to the MBBS course and currently not providing him with reservation under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.
However, the bench accepted the fact that the NMC had constituted a committee of domain experts and issued specific guidelines after examining the issue. The NMC said an eight-member expert committee had discussed the issue.
It said in its report, “After careful consideration of the recommendations received from the expert members in the meetings, the Board of Undergraduate Medical Education has come to the conclusion that with regard to mental illness, ‘a feature of mental illness should now be included in Medical Education (MBBS)'”. It cannot be a bar to eligibility for admission, provided the candidate appears in the merit list of a competitive entrance examination, such as NEET-UG.”