Summarize the following court judgment. tion (Civil) No. 961 of 1988 Etc. (Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India). Kuldip Singh	 Additional Solicitor General	 Rajindra Lal Chopra	 A.S. Pundir	 Bharat Sangal	 Dr. (Mrs.) Roxna section Swamy	 M.C. Dhingra	 Prem Malhotra and Ms. A. Subhashini for the Petitioners. Madan Lokur	 Manik Karanjawala	 C.M. Nayyar and S.K. Mehta for the Respondents. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by DUTT	 J. These writ petitions relate to the allocation of seats in medical colleges in the MBBS/BDS Course pursuant to the result of the All India Entrance Examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education	 New Delhi	 in respect of 15 per cent of the total number of MBBS/BDS seats in medical colleges of different States. Before dealing with the individual writ petitions	 we may refer to an application made by the Union of India being PG NO 907 C.M.P. No. 29264 of 1988 in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 348 52 of 1985 praying for suitable directions in the matter of allocation of vacant seats. It has been stated in this application that the results of the All India Entrance Examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education for admission in the MBBS/BDS Course were declared on July 15	 1988. A merit list of 1	600 candidates together with a waiting list of 1	000 candidates was sent to the Director General of Health Services by the Central Board of Secondary Education for making allocations of candidates to various medical colleges for admission to MBBS/BDS Course	 as the case may be. The Director General of Health Services allocated 1	428 candidates to MBBS Course and 111 candidates to BDS Course in the various medical/dental colleges. Further	 it is stated that on the basis of information received in the office of the Director General of Health Services	 532 candidates have not joined in all these courses and	 accordingly	 the said 532 seats have been lying vacant. In order to decide the criteria to be adopted for allocation of vacant seats as a result of drop outs in the number of candidates who had been allocated MBBS/BDS seats in various medical/dental colleges	 a meeting was held under the chairmanship of the Secretary	 Ministry of Health and Family Affair. In this meeting	 the Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education	 Secretary	 Medical Council of India	 and representatives of the Ministry of Law and Justice participated	 besides others from the Ministry of Health and Family Affair and the Directorate General of Health Services. The Committee took a decision regarding the allocation of seats in the MBBS/BDS Course. The Committee has also made certain suggestions regarding the guidelines to be followed for the purpose of filling up the vacant seats in the MBBS/BDS Course. Mr. Kuldip Singh	 learned Additional Solicitor General	 submits that this Court may approve of the suggestions made by the said Committee or lay down the guidelines for the purpose of filling up the vacant seats. After hearing the learned Counsel of the petitioners in these writ petitions and after considering the suggestions of the committee and the submissions made by the learned Additional Solicitor General	 we direct that the following guidelines should be followed for the purpose of filling up the said 532 seats in the MBBS/BDS Course. The candidates	 who have been allocated seats to the Dhanbad Medical College which is not a recognised College by PG NO 908 the Medical Council of India after 1982	 should first be reallocated to the recognised medical colleges having vacancies keeping in view the aspect of the minimum distance from their home towns. Those candidates who have exercised their choice for MBBS Course only or to MBBS Course by way of first preference and to BDS Course by way of second preference and admitted to BDS Course for want of seats in the MBBS Course shall	 if they or any of them desire to be admitted in the MBBS Course	 be absorbed against the available vacant seats in order of merit. The change from BDS Course to MBBS Course will	 however	 be at their own cost and responsibility. The vacant MBBS or BDS seats	 thereafter available	 should be offered to the candidates on the waiting list in order of merit. Allocation may be made to medical colleges on the basis of the five preference indicated by the candidates in the application forms. Any allocation of seat made to a candidate in the waiting list either in the MBBS or BDS Course shall be final and no request for change from one course to the other will be entertained. In the case of those candidates in the waiting list	 who cannot be allocated to medical colleges on the basis of five preferences given by them in the application forms	 the Director General of Health Services will allocate them colleges as near to their places of residence as possible subject to availability of seats in those nearby colleges. The candidates will be given maximum time of twenty days to join the medical colleges allotted to them	 failing which the seats will be declared vacant. The allocation of MBBS seats already made shall not be disturbed. The Director General of Health Services shall consider the question of allotment of medical colleges to candidates	 who have been already admitted to MBBS or BDS Course	 nearer to their home towns in order of merit. Absorption in the said 532 vacant seats of candidates who have already been admitted in the BDS Course and reallotment of medical colleges to candidates also already admitted in the MBBS or BDS Course	 as the case may be	 PG NO 909 home towns	 and the reallocation to the recognised medical colleges of candidates who have been already allocated seats to the Dhanbad Medical College	 shall be made within a period of three weeks from today. The petitioner Amanjit Singh Gill in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 961 of 1988 is a resident of Punjab. He has been admitted in the MBBS Course in the Tamil Nadu Medical College. He prays that the respondent may be directed to allot a seat in Patiala Medical College	 Punjab	 which is near to his residence. The petitioner Shalu Sood in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1110 of 1988 has been allotted a seat in the BDS Course in S.C.B. Medical College	 Cuttack	 and she has since joined the said College. According to her two seats in BDS Course are lying vacant in Delhi. No particulars have	 however	 been given by her as to in which medical college in Delhi	 the two seats are lying vacant. Be that as it may	 she prays for the allotment of one of such seats to her in order of merit. In Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1071 of 1988	 the petitioner Vimal Mehta	 who is a resident of Faridabad	 Haryana	 has been allotted a seat in the MBBS Course in Darbhanga Medical College	 Bihar	 which is far off from the place of residence of the petitioner. On behalf of the petitioner preference has been given first to a medical college in Delhi and second to a medical college in Rohtak in the State of Haryana. The grievance of the petitioner Mahesh Dutt in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1056 of 1988 is that although 7 seats in the MBBS Course have been lying vacant in the Medical College Rohtak in respect of which he gave his first preference	 he has been allotted a seat in the Medical College Dhanbad. The home town of the petitioner is in Haryana and it is prayed by him that he should be allotted a seat in the MBBS Course in the Medical College Rohtak. The petitioner has	 however	 already joined the Medical College Dhanbad. The case of Kumari Shilpa Mehra	 the petitioner in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 936 of 1988	 is that she has been allotted a seat in the BDS Course at the Government Dental College	 Bombay	 although candidates who have secured less marks than her have been admitted in MBBS Course. The petitioner has already joined the BDS Course in the said Government Dental College	 Bombay. It is prayed by her that she may be allotted a seat in the MBBS Course in any medical college in Bombay in order of merit. PG NO 910 The guidelines for filling up the said 532 seats in the MBBS/BDS Course cover the cases of the petitioners in the different writ petitions mentioned above. Instead of giving separate directions in each of the writ petitions	 we direct the Director General of Health Services to deal with all the above cases and also the cases of other candidates in accordance with the above guidelines laid down by us. All the cases shall be disposed of by the Director General of Health Services within a period of three weeks from today. The Director General	 after disposal of the representations of the writ petitioners and others with regard to the filling up of the said 532 vacant seats in the MBBS/BDS Course	 shall submit a report to this Court within six weeks from today. The writ petitions and C.M.P. No. 29264 of 1988 are disposed of as above. There will	 however	 be no order as to costs in any of them.

Medical Colleges Admission to All India Entrance Examination for MBBS/BDS course Vacant seats as a result of drop out in number of candidates allocated seats Guidelines issued by Court for allocation of vacant seats. The petitioners in the writ petitions had been allotted seats in MBBS/BDS courses in various Medical/Dental Colleges. They sought change	 and wanted admissions in colleges which were near their home towns. The Union of India	 respondent in the writ petitions also filed Civil Miscellaneous Petitions seeking directions of the Court in the matter of the allocation of 532 vacant seats in the medical colleges in the MBBS/BDS courses pursuant to the result of the All India Entrance Examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education	 New Delhi. Disposing of the Writ and Civil Miscellaneous petitions the Court laid down guidelines to be followed: HELD: 1. The candidates	 who have been allocated seats to the Dhanbad Medical College which is not a recognised College	 by the Medical Council of India should first be reallocated to the recognised medical colleges having vacancies keeping in view the minimum distance from their home towns. [907H;908A] 2. Those candidates who have exercised their choice for MBBS course only or to MBBS course by way of first preference and to BDS course by way of second preference and admitted to BDS Course for want of seats in the MBBS Course shall	 if they or any of them desire to be admitted in the MBBS Course	 be absorbed against the available vacant seats in order of merit. [908B C] PG NO 905 PG NO 906 3. The vacant MBBS or BDS seats	 thereafter available should be offered to the candidates on the waiting list in order of merits. [908C] 4. The candidates will be given maximum time of twenty days to join the medical colleges	 failing with the seats will be declared vacant. [908F] 5. The allocation of MBBs seats already made shall not be disturbed. [908F] 6. The Director General of Health Services	 shall consider the question of allotment to candidates	 who have been already admitted to MBBS or BDS Course	 nearer to their home town in order of merit. [908G] [The Director General of Health Services to deal with the cases of the petitioners in the different writ petitions and also the cases of the other candidates in accordance with the above guidelines and dispose of the same within a period of three weaks.] [910B]