In Brief
The Supreme Court set aside Haryana's notification identifying remote and difficult areas for NEET weightage in postgraduate medical admissions. The State constituted a committee on 4 May 2017 and issued the notification the next day, implementing it before gazette publication. The Court found the process fatally flawed: it lacked objective data, misused subjective criteria (doctors' unwillingness, vacancy existence), and identified 60% of health centres as remote despite Haryana being a developed state. Proper identification requires measuring difficulty across verifiable factors—remoteness, accessibility, environmental and housing conditions—not ad-hoc preferences. The State was ordered to reissue the notification following established national guidelines within one week.
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