The petitions have been filed through Advocate Shivendra Singh, claiming that the petitioners, namely, Dr. Sudha Reddy Beravolu and Dr. Vadyala Akshita Reddy and Dr.Akkineni Krishna Prasad, have been residing in India since long and have also completed their Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) as well as post graduation studies from India.\u00a0It is further claimed that the petitioners had been at forefront during the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.Alleging that impugned notification dated March 4, 2021, is a total deprivation of eligibility of the Petitioners to appear in the NEET-SS 2021, who were otherwise permitted to appear in NEET-SS until last year, the petitions state thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe deep and pervasive link of the Petitioners with the medical profession in India cannot be abruptly snapped after they have been permitted to read for MBBS (course with duration of five and a half years) and post-graduation (course with duration of three years) under a system which was well aware of the fact that they were OCI card holders.\u201d\u201cEven though the Petitioners had an opportunity to pursue their post-graduation elsewhere, they chose to stay here as they have strong roots in India and intend to make a career in the healthcare sector,\u201d the petitions add.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIn light of the above, the plea prays for restraining the Government and the NBEMS from giving effect to Clause (4) (ii) of the notification dated March 4, 2021, as also to Clause 3.6 of the Information Bulletin for NEET-SS 2021 examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petitions read thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIndia is in dire need of healthcare professionals as evident during the COVID pandemic crisis and by the extremely poor Doctor-Patient ratio. The impugned notification would only demotivate healthcare professionals from staying back in India.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a recent development, the Delhi High Court granted permission to one Dr. Snigdha Kamini, a similarly placed OCI cardholder medical practitioner, to apply for NEET-SS 2021 examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,58578],"tags":[1377,110054,110055,110056,110053,109152],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2020\/07\/29171322\/New-Courts-Block-of-Delhi-High-Court-inaugurated.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}