India, Feb. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Friday directed the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to explain its decision to drastically reduce the qualifying cut-off percentiles for NEET-PG 2025-26.

A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe directed NBEMS to file an affidavit and posted the matter for hearing after two weeks.

"On one hand, we have to see that seats should not get wasted. At the same time, there is pressure that candidates are not coming, so please reduce the cutoff.

"Then the argument will be that the standards are being lowered and the counter-argument is that seats are going waste. So, somewhere there has to be a balance," the bench observed while asking NBEMS to file an affidavit.

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