KARNATAKA HIGH COURT EXTENDS INTERIM RELIEF TO PG DOCTORS TILL NOVEMBER 30

11^TH NOVEMBER,2020

The Karnataka High Court has again extended interim relief directing the state government not to force the appellants before the court should join their respective places to conduct compulsory Urban service in terms of section 4 of the Karnataka mandatory Training Service By Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act 2012.  The relief was extended by Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice N S Sanjay Gowda's division bench.

The doctors of Karnataka have challenged the mandatory One-year urban service rule for Postgraduate Doctors. The challenge was made for the PG doctors who have taken admission through NRI and Management quota. Doctors are also against an order where a court had sustained Section 4 of the KCS Act's constitutional validity on August 30, 2019.

The court had said that “What is so superior to the management quota that you cannot do service for one year in the state. The service you will do is not for gratis, and they will pay you.”

Author' Shweta Singh