SUJIT KUMAR MISHRA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE State Government issued a Government Order on 22 January 2014 under which thirty percent seats were reserved for government medical officers who had served in the Provincial Medical and Health Services of the State. These seats were reserved for admission to postgraduate medical courses for the MS and MD degree programmes. The last date for filling up of application forms for the Uttar Pradesh Postgraduate Medical Entrance Examination - 2014 was 12 March 2014. Under the Government Order dated 28 February 2014, only those medical officers who had satisfactorily completed three years service in Community Health Centres and Primary Health Centres situated in distant, remote and backward areas in different districts of the State were eligible for MD/MS courses.

(2.) THE petitioner is a Medical Officer at Primary Health Centre, Ranipur, Suhakhpur, Ghazipur. He was granted permission to appear in the written examination on 25 March 2014. The petitioner admittedly appeared in the written examination. He is aggrieved by his non -selection for the postgraduate medical course.

(3.) IN the counter affidavit which has been filed by the State, it has been stated that the Screening Committee constituted under Government Orders dated 28 February 2014, 17 April 2014 and 10 June 2014 laid down the following conditions for the issuance of a No Objection Certificate to the Medical Officers so as to enable them to participate in the counselling process: