NEET-UG 2022: Delhi HC issues notice on plea by candidate with 50% locomotor disability

The Delhi high court has issued notice on a plea by a NEET-UG 2022 candidate with 50% locomotor disability who seeks allocation of a seat against one of the vacant MBBS course seats under the PwD category despite being declared ineligible for admission due to a disability certificate.

The petitioner has submitted that despite getting 42nd rank under the Unreserved- Persons with Disabilities (UR-PwD) category in the examination, she was found ineligible for admission after a Chandigarh-based medical hospital found her disability to be 30% in contrast to the 50% as had been recorded earlier by a medical officer in Punjab. Hence, she fell short of the 40% threshold which is prescribed for a benchmark disability under section 2(r) of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

“If the deformity in the Petitioner’s index finger had been accounted for, her disability would have stood at 45%, thereby entitling her to the benefit of reservation,” the plea submits. 

As per the live law report, a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad sought a response from the Union of India through the Ministry of Health and Familly Welfare, National Testing Agency, National Medical Commission, and All India Institute of Medical Sciences within three weeks.

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