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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) sought responses from the Centre and others connected a plea challenging the determination of the National Board of Examinations successful Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to drastically trim the qualifying cut-off percentiles for NEET-PG 2025-26.
A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe issued notices to the Union of India, the NBEMS, the National Medical Commission and others. The substance is listed for adjacent proceeding connected February 6.
With implicit 18,000 postgraduate aesculapian seats crossed the state remaining vacant, the Board revised the qualifying percentiles for NEET-PG 2025 admissions, reducing it to zero from 40 percentile for reserved categories — which volition marque adjacent those scoring arsenic debased arsenic minus 40 retired of 800 to instrumentality portion successful the 3rd circular of counselling for PG aesculapian seats.
According to the announcement published by NBEMS, the NEET PG cutoff for the wide class has been reduced to 7 percentile from 50.
The apical tribunal was proceeding a plea filed by societal idiosyncratic Harisharan Devgan, Dr Saurav Kumar, Dr Lakshya Mittal and Dr. Akash Soni which submitted that the cut-off simplification violates Article 14 and Article 21.
The plea contended that eligibility criteria cannot beryllium altered aft commencement of the enactment process, arsenic aspirants prepared, competed, and made vocation choices based connected the primitively notified cut-offs.
The petition says that PG aesculapian acquisition cannot beryllium treated arsenic a commercialized workout and that regulatory authorities are required to forestall dilution of standards.
Several sections of the aesculapian assemblage person termed arsenic "unprecedented and illogical" the NBEMS's determination to drastically trim the cut-off percentile for candidates crossed each categories for NEET-PG 2025-26.
