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The Bombay High Court has killed the Goa government’s move to introduce a sports quota for admission to medical and dental colleges after starting this process, assuming that this admission was contrary to binding rules in possibility.
A division bench of Justice Bharati H Dengre and Nivedita P Mehta challenged a notice issued on 1 August on a petition filed by an NEET candidate, inviting players by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), which invites the children to apply for unfilled seats under the children of Freedom Fighters (CFF).
A copy of the 25 August order was made available on Tuesday.
The bench noticed that the general entry prospectus for 2025-26 is the force of the law and binding on both the authorities and the candidates, “emphasizing that the deadline is the essence of the admission process.
The court said, “Without amending the prospectus or notification of the amendments in it, the applications under a new category have started inviting after introducing counseling amount to change the rules of the game.”
Prospectus covered 180 seats for MBBS at Goa Medical College, 50 seats for five -year BDS courses at Bambolim and Goa Dental College.
Senior advocate SS Kantak, who appeared for the petitioner, argued that DTE had published a program for consultation for admission to MBBS courses on July 28 and, according to it, the first round of consultation was to be held on 1 August, but it was resumed on 5 August.
The petitioner participated in the first round of consultation for MBBS/BDS held on August 5, and at the end of the first round, the candidate of rank 78 secured the final seat in MBBS in the general category, and the rank 108 candidate won the first seat in BDS, which was in the general category, it was said.
There were only two candidates compared to the petitioner, who did not secure admission, and hoped that he had a chance to capture the seat in MBBS or BD in the general category.
However, the construction of a new game Kota crushed his hopes.
The petition stated, “The government allowed eligible meritorious persons to like an application under sports quota for the first time, fixing the date of cut-off,” the petition stated.
Kantak argued that the state government’s move, after the scheduled date of the first session of the ranking in the merit list and the first session of counseling, started after changing the rules of the game.
The government represented by Advocate General Davidas Pangam defended the policy citing its executive powers and Goa Sports Policy 2009.
Sports bodies, including Goa Football Association and Fencing Association, intervened in support of Kota, arguing that many states had already adopted similar measures.
The bench, in its order, mentioned that the cut-off dates were set to fill the application, and the merit list was published on 30 July by implementing the criteria set in the rules.
“If this would have been such a case that sports quota reservation was already indicated in prospectus, we should clarify that we would not have intervened because it was for the State Authority to determine whose favor reservation would lie, or not available on a particular category candidate, which category will go to the seat,” The order, “said.
It is free to frame policies to clarify that the state to encourage the game, the bench stressed that such measures should be included before the admission process starts.
The court said, “Introduction to Kota after the publication of the merit list and adversely affect the fairness and transparency of the admission process during the ongoing consultation.”
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