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Submissions of Mr. Singhdev for NMC

18. Mr. T. Singhdev, appearing for the NMC, disputes the petitioners' contention that the petitioners have not completed the course of 4½ years, with the requisite training for being eligible to appear in the 3rd Professional Part II MBBS Examination which was WP(C) 4016/2024 Digitally Signed By:AJIT Page 18 of 36 Digitally Signed KUMAR By:CHANDRASHEKHARAN HARI SHANKAR Signing Date:29.05.2024 Signing Date:29.05.2024 17:56:38 17:54:16 held on 11 March 2024. Though it is true that MAMC has awarded internal assessment marks to each of the petitioners and issued them completion training certificates, on the basis of which they attempted their 3rd Professional Part-I MBBS Examination in October 2023, Mr Singhdev draws attention to the Table following Note (c) below Regulation 8 of the GME Regulations, which suggests the number of clinical postings to be undertaken by each candidate during the 3rd to the 9th semesters. It is submitted that in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th semesters, each candidate is required to undertake 22, 18, 22 and 22 weeks of training respectively divided amongst the various specialities, working out to a total of 84 weeks equivalent to 21 months of training. The periods of training undertaken by the petitioners, as per the tabular statement that Mr. Duggal himself furnished and which stand reproduced in para 8 supra indicate that none of the petitioners have fulfilled the requisite number of weeks of training in the 6th to 9th semesters. Qua Petitioners 1 and 2, as per the charts submitted by Mr. Duggal,

21. Mr. Duggal further submits that, if Mr. Singhdev's submission is accepted, a piquant situation would result, in which, though training completion certificates have been issued to the petitioners, they would still have to wait for a year before undertaking their 3rd Professional Part II MBBS Examination. "What are the petitioners to do during this entire year?", Mr. Duggal "asks himself", as, having been issued training completion certificates, the petitioners can quite obviously not be asked to undertake any further training, according to him. They would just be sitting at home, doing nothing, thereby wasting an entire precious year of their career.

44. Mr. Singhdev also pointed out that in fact, it appears that the petitioners have also not put in the requisite number of weeks of clinical posting before undertaking their 1st Professional and 2nd Professional Examinations. I am not, however, venturing into that arena, as the respondents are not joining issue on the entitlement of the petitioners to have undertaken their 1st Professional and 2nd Professional Examinations.