NEET PG 2019: Tamil Nadu notifies Incentive Scheme for PG Medical Admissions, Full Details

• To award 10% of the marks secured in NEET per year of service to the Health Officers who are working in Tamil Nadu Public Health Services for getting a Post Graduate seat in M.D. (Community Medicine) alone. The list of the Places identified for awarding incentive marks to the service candidate mentioned in para 10 above are annexed to this orders in Annexure-I, II, III & IV and the list of places for which incentive marks should not be given is given in Annexure V.


• The scheme for awarding incentive marks to the Medical Officers in Government Service / Local Bodies is subject to the amendment that would be brought in by the Board of Governors in Supersession of Medical Council of India for
  the Post Graduate Medical Regulation, 2000 from time to time.


• The Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Director of Medical and Rural Health Services and the Director of Medical Education are directed to give suitable instructions to the District Level Officers (viz. Deputy Director of Health Services, Joint Director of Health Services, Deans of the Government Medical College and Hospital and the Head of the Institutions) while issuing the service certificate to the Medical Officers who are working in the places mentioned in the Annexures to this order, utmost care should be taken into account.

The Government Order (GO) is purely based on the Medical Council of India (MCI) rules.In the notification dated 5.4.2018, the Medical Council of India has among others incorporated the regulation 9(4) as follows:

The reservation of seats in Medical Colleges/institutions for respective categories shall be as per applicable laws prevailing in States/Union Territories. An all India merit list as well as State-wise merit list of the eligible candidates shall be prepared on the basis of the marks obtained in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test and candidates shall be admitted to Postgraduate Courses from the said merit lists only.

Provided that in determining the merit of candidates who are in service of Government. the public authority, weightage in the marks may be given by the Government/Competent Authority as an incentive up to 10% of the marks obtained for each year of service in remote and/or difficult areas or Rural areas up to the maximum of 30% of the marks obtained in National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test. The remote and/or difficult areas or rural areas shall be as notified by State Government / Competent authority from time to time."

Against the above orders of the Government, certain in-service and non-service Medical Officers have filed Writ Petitions before the Hon'ble High Court of Madras. The HC among other observations held that the impugned Government Orders to be reviewed and the exercise in identifying the remote/difficult areas should be redone in a proper perspective manner in consultation with the Expert Committee. Further, the impugned Government Orders are held to be illegal and therefore, allowed the Writ Petitions.

Aggrieved with the HC order, the Government filed Writ Appeals before the Division Bench, which pronounced the orders as follows:

In view of the above, the Government is directed to complete the process of selection of medical Post Graduate Degree / Diploma Course in the medical education and proceed with the admission as indicated in the schedule for the academic year 2018-19. It is made clear that the weightage (incentive) by way of additional marks ought not to be extended to A3 category which as per the earlier conclusion, is not entitled to such benefit.

In the result, the Writ Appeals are partly allowed, the judgment of the learned single Judge is modified and the Writ Petitions are accordingly disposed of on the aforesaid terms. No costs. Consequently, all connected CMPs are closed.

"In order to avoid such recurrence in future towards categorization of Doctors who are employed in remote, difficult and rural areas for the purpose of benefit of additional weightage as envisaged in proviso to Sub-clause IV of Regulation 9, it is suggested that the Committee of experts may be headed by a retired Judge of the High Court. This is more so, when repeatedly such identification or categorization is put to challenge in the legal forum, so that the experts who are part of the Committee will have the benefit of legal acumen from the Judge concerned while making the recommendations for identifying the areas in tune with the proviso to Sub-clause IV of Regulation 9 and also in line with the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and other High Courts. We do hope that the Government bear this in mind while constituting any further Committee/s for future academic years in respect of admissions to Post Graduate Degree / Diploma courses."

The Government have examined the above orders of the Hon'ble Division Bench of the High Court of Madras and in the light of the time limit prescribed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India for completing the counseling process and have decided to comply with the orders of the Hon'ble Division Bench of the High Court of Madras and to delete the Category A3 in the Government Order first and second read above (i.e. Posts in all CEmONC/ Trauma / Accident / Emergency care/NICU/SNCU Units, irrespective of the location of such units in any type of institution, district and geography). Accordingly, orders have been issued by deleting the above category in Government Order sixth read above and completed the admission process for Post Graduate Degree and Diploma courses for the academic the year 2018-2019.

Based on the observation made by the HC in its orders dated 17.5.2018, in para 39, the Government have constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Justice Thiru A.Selvam, (Retd.), High Court Judge of Madras in the Government Order seventh read above, to identify remote/difficult/rural areas for awarding incentive marks to the in-service Medical Officers for the admission to Post Graduate Degree / Diploma Courses from the academic year 2019 – 2020 in consonance with the Medical Council of India's Post Graduate Regulations.

The Committee after careful examination submitted their report along with its recommendations. In their recommendations, the committee has concluded for awarding incentive marks to the Medical Officers who are working in Government Medical Institutions by classifying the institutions into five categories as mentioned below: