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In the meantime, these petitions have been filed.
In the State of U.P. there are 12 Government colleges, 2 Government Medical Universities. For MBBS courses in these institutions, there are 1544 seats in the first year after deducting 296 of the All India Quota. For BDS, the seats are 51 after deducting 60 for the All India Quota, thus, there are total 1595 seats in Government institutions as State seats.
In addition to the above, there are 26 private Medical Colleges and 23 Dental Medical Colleges. For MBBS course in such institutions, there are 3100 seats and for BDS there are 2300 seats in the first year. Thus, the total number of MBBS seats are 4644, whereas BDS seats are 2351. The total combined seats are 6995. Out of these 50% are subsidized seats as per order dated 02.09.2016. In NEET list 2016, sixty two thousand (62000) students found eligible are domiciles of State of U.P. out of which 27537 have applied for centralized counselling by the State Government in pursuance to the advertisement dated 28.08.2016 till the mid-night of 31.08.2016. It is not out of place to mention that 50% was the cut off mark for NEET 2016.

It is not in dispute that a Common Entrance Test has been held by the Medical Council of India through the Central Board of Secondary Education known as National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test 2016 (for short ''NEET 2016') under Clause 5(5) of the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education 1997 (for short ''Regulations 1997') made by the Medical Council of India in exercise of powers under section 33 of the Medical Council of India Act 1956 (hereinafter referred as ''Act 1956'). None of the petitioners has raised any dispute as regards the said Entrance Examinations. In fact they have admitted to the fact that admissions are to be made on the basis of the Eligibility/Merit list prepared on the basis of NEET 2016 and not otherwise.

The Universities and other authorities concerned for the academic year 2016-17 shall organize admission process in accordance with the time schedule indicated in appendix F."

Furthermore, it was provided that in the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education 1997, after Appendix ''E' the following shall be added :

"APPENDIX - F TIME SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETION OF THE ADMISSION PROCESS FOR FIRST MBBS COURSE ( Academic Session 2016-17) Schedule for Admission Seats filled up All India Quota Seats filled up by the State Govt./Institutions Conduct of National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET 2016) NEET 1 Conduct on 1st May 2016 NEET 2 on 24th July 2016 NEET 1 Conduct on 1st May 2016 NEET 2 on 24th July 2016 Declaration of Result of Qualifying Examination /Entrance Examination 17th August, 2016 17th August, 2016 1st Round of Counseling/Admission 22nd August to 27th August, 2016 3rd September to 5th September, Last date for joining the allotted college and course 3rd September, 2016 By 8th September, 2016 2nd Round of Counseling/Admission 9th to 14th September, 2016 21st September to 23rd September, 2016 Last date for joining for the candidates allotted seats in 2nd Round of Counseling By 20th September, 2016 By 26th September, 2016 Commencement of academic session 3rd September, 2016 3rd September, 2016 Last date up to which students can be admitted against vacancies arising due to any reason Not applicable 30th September, 2016 SCHEDULE FOR ON LINE COUNSELING (ALLOTMENT PROCESS) FOR ALL INDIA QUOTA UG (MBBS/BDS) SEATS -2016 All India Quota (Online Counseling) SI.

In view of the above discussion we order as under:-

(i) Subject to what has been held hereinabove, the impugned orders prescribing a Centralized Counselling for all institutions for admission to MBBS/BDS medical courses in the State based on NEET 2016, do not suffer from any error.
(ii) Minority institutions shall be allowed to admit the students of their community based on Centralized Counselling held by the State on the basis of NEET 2016, to the extent permissible, but, without deviating from the merit of such students as reflected in the NEET list 2016, so as to sub-serve their minority status under Article 30(1) of the Constitution of India.