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General category seats narrow down with OBC at AIIMS
April 08, 2010
New Delhi: The general category seats at the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) continue to suffer, despite the government
announcing a mandatory 27% quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs)
three years ago across the educational institutions in the country.
The problem, as revealed by the result of a Right to Information (RTI)
application filed by the father of an MBBS aspirant is that the seats
from the general category at AIIMS are also being given to students
from the OBC category.
The father demanding names, ranks and categories of all students
admitted in the MBBS programme in the premier medical institution for
the year 2009 filed the RTI application on January 13 and the reply
revealed that the AIIMS registrar had admitted 3 students under the
'others' category where the entrance test information bulletin
mentions only general, Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST),
OBC, orthopaedic physically handicapped as the only eligible
categories for admission.
Three years down the lane, it has been observed that the OBC quota has
still not been implemented successfully at AIIMS as it fails to
provide OBC seats in the reserved category.
The father filing the second RTI query on February 23, asked the Dean
of examination to elaborate on the 'others' category to which the
response as on March 17 stated a list released by him adjusting those
three students under the general category.
A senior official later said that, "Those OBC candidates must be
belonging to the creamy later who later took admission through the
general category."
It has been revealed that most of the high-ranking OBC students are
accommodated in the general category alone whereas students already
from the general category get fewer seats.
Dr. Y.K. Gupta, Public Relations Officer at AIIMS said that
meritorious students automatically get admitted to AIIMS through the
general quota. Another senior doctor said that students on the merit
list automatically get listed within the general category.
The reservation rules as per the government's directive imply that 50
percent of the seats have to be occupied by general students, 15
percent by SC, 7.5 percent by the ST and 27 percent by the OBC.
The number of seats available for the MBBS programme at AIIMS every
year is 77, out of which 36 seats are open for general students, 11
for SC, 6 for ST and 19 for OBC.
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