Tagged “substantive-equality”

Neil Aurelio Nunes v. Union of India (2022): OBC reservation in the NEET All India Quota upheld

The Supreme Court upheld 27% reservation for OBC candidates in the All India Quota seats for undergraduate and postgraduate NEET medical and dental admissions. Rejecting the petitioners' merit-versus-reservation framing, the Court held that reservation is not antithetical to merit but furthers distributive justice, and that an examination rank is not a proxy for merit.