The Supreme Court dismissed a plea seeking to admit the petitioner for medical undergraduate course for academic year 2021-2022 under disabled category in order of merit and as provided by Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A division bench of Justices L. Nageshwar Rao and B.R Gavai was hearing the plea of a petitioner, who is suffering from locomotor disability with congenital agenesis of all fingers of left hand with 45 % disability. The nature of disability specified above is permanent in nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petitioner applied and appeared for the NEET UG 2021 examination. The petition avers that the petitioner secured NEET All India Rank 570779; Category Rank 177726 and PwD rank 1335 and thus is eligible for admission for MBBS under-graduate course in the PwD category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (Amendment), 2019 provide that the minimum degree of disability should be 40% (Benchmark Disability) in order to be eligible for availing reservation for persons with specified disability, but under Appendix H, it is provided that in case of Physical Disability\/ Locomotor Disability, parameters such as (i) both hands intact, (ii) with intact sensations, (iii) sufficient strength and (iv) range of motion, will be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n