Recently, the Apex Court while dismisssed a plea challenging Central decision to increase postgraduate seats for academic year 2018-2019 in Government medical colleges said,  "Such a thing [Centre's decision] is coming up for the first time! Whenever matters were listed before me (in High Court), they were partial to Private medical colleges. And by judicial orders we had to increase the seats in private colleges....Fortunately those were upheld by the Supreme Court".

The division bench was headed by Justices BR Bavai and Vikram Nath. 

"Let them do it. We are happy that at times, they are in favour of the Government Medical Colleges rather than being partial to Private medical colleges. And you know the reasons why there are partial to Private medical colleges, we need not say anything!", the Bench remarked.

According to the petition, the Private medical colleges and the government medical colleges, in regard to bed strength, clinical material, faculty number requirement, for running the under graduate and broad speciality postgraduate courses, are one and the same.  The petition was filed through AOR Sudhanshu Choudhari.

There is no distinction whatsoever under the MCI Regulations, 1999 so far as Private Colleges and the Government Medical Colleges are concerned. The Regulations uniformly apply to all the Colleges irrespective whether they are Government Colleges or Private Medical Colleges.

Case Title - Maeer's Maharashtra Institute Medical Education & Research vs Union of India