PM Modi reviews issue of OBC, EWS reservation in all-India quota of medical education

In a gathering on Monday attended by Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Well being and Household Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, secretaries of schooling, well being and household welfare, regulation and justice, and social welfare in addition to different senior officers, the difficulty concerning the two quotas had been mentioned, the sources stated.

It has been a long-standing demand from medical aspirants to provide OBC reservation in all-India quota of medical schooling. A number of litigations have additionally been made in numerous courts of the nation however the difficulty has been pending for a very long time.

Within the assessment assembly, the PM desired that the difficulty of OBC reservation within the all-India quota (AIQ) of medical schooling could also be resolved by the ministries involved on precedence, a supply stated.

The AIQ seats in drugs had been created on the instructions of the Supreme Court in 1984. All states had been required to give up 15 per cent undergraduate and 50 per cent postgraduate medical and dental seats in state-run faculties to a “central pool” with the remaining going to a “state pool”.

The “central pool” is the All India Quota (AIQ) and college students throughout the nation are eligible to use for admission to this. The apex court docket had earlier dominated that the state reservation coverage will apply to state seats and the AIQ seats as effectively.

In complete 15 per cent of undergraduate and 50 per cent of postgraduate seats of state authorities medical faculties are earmarked as all India quota. For admission, SC and ST aspirants have reservation on this quota, however there is no such thing as a reservation for OBCs.

Based on sources, the PM additionally requested the Well being Ministry to assessment the place of implementation of EWS reservation by numerous states for medical schooling.

In 2019, the central authorities had introduced 10 per cent reservation in authorities jobs and better schooling for economically weaker sections within the common class.

Based on the reply to a written query in Parliament, the Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare had elevated the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) reservation quota in medical faculties to five,200 MBBS seats.

“These seats have been elevated in State Authorities’s Faculties, State Authorities aided Society run Faculties, Municipal Company’s Faculties and Faculties arrange on Personal Public Mode (PPP mode) for the tutorial session 2019-20,” former Minister of State for Well being Ashwinin Kumar Choubey had stated.