The Supreme Court will on Monday take up a petition that urges the National Medical Commission (NMC) to put in place a concrete mechanism to ensure that postgraduate seats in pre-clinical and para-clinical disciplines do not go vacant across medical colleges in the country.

A bench led by Chief Justice B R Gavai, along with Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria, is scheduled to hear the matter.

The petitioner has also asked the court to direct the NMC to furnish data on how many PG seats in these branches have remained unfilled over the past five years. The plea argues that vacant seats in foundational medical disciplines lead to long-term gaps in teaching faculty, ultimately affecting undergraduate and postgraduate training quality nationwide.

This is not the first time the court h

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