New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a key petition seeking directions to the National Medical Commission (NMC) to create a uniform mechanism ensuring that no postgraduate medical seats remain vacant across medical colleges in the country. The plea also asked the Commission to place on record data from the past five years showing how many such seats went unfilled nationwide.

The matter will be taken up by a bench comprising Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justices K. Vinod Chandran and N.V. Anjaria. The issue of vacant PG and super-speciality seats has repeatedly drawn judicial concern, with the Supreme Court earlier emphasising that medical seats cannot be allowed to go waste.

According to a recent PTI report, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking d

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