About 25 post graduate medical and dental seats in Maharashtra are up for grabs in the open merit category after the Supreme Court on Thursday clamped down the state government's decision to allot 10 per cent seats for the economically weaker sections among the unreserved category in the current academic year.
The decision of the Court has come a day before admissions close for the 185 post-graduate (PG) medical and dental courses in the state. Seeing the order as a setback, the state government requested the apex court to grant an extension of time for filling up the seats. The Vacation Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose said, "We think we have given enough indulgence to Maharashtra. We are not going to extend the time."