https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173110 The Medical Council's statutory role under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 was confined to maintaining medical education standards and prescribing minimum eligibility for admission, so the admission-eligibility regulation was mandatory, while the rule governing selection among already eligible candidates was only directory. The State Government's executive order did not dilute the eligibility standard; it relaxed the selection criterion for reserved seats to make Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reservations effective. That relaxation was held permissible under the constitutional power to make special provision for those classes and was not treated as hostile discrimination. The State's order was upheld and the challenge failed. en-us Tue, 22 Sep 1981 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:20:13 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173110 The Medical Council's statutory role under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 was confined to maintaining medical education standards and prescribing minimum eligibility for admission, so the admission-eligibility regulation was mandatory, while the rule governing selection among already eligible candidates was only directory. The State Government's executive order did not dilute the eligibility standard; it relaxed the selection criterion for reserved seats to make Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reservations effective. That relaxation was held permissible under the constitutional power to make special provision for those classes and was not treated as hostile discrimination. The State's order was upheld and the challenge failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Sep 1981 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173110