New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday approved the Centre's decision to reduce the qualifying percentile for admission to National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test super-speciality (NEET-SS) courses from 50th to 30th percentile to fill around 1,800 vacant super-speciality seats across the country.

A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe passed the order after the government said the decision was taken following the court's suggestion to reduce the admission percentile to ensure seats do not go waste in the NEET-SS 2025 counselling, with two rounds already completed and a stray vacancy round proposed to be held by the Directorate General Health Services.

On a reconsideration, the Centre has decided to reduce the perc...