The health ministry has given an order that seats at 9 medical colleges in India including All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), should be increased as soon as possible.The move is the first concrete step by the government to pacify medical students protesting against reservation.
The Centre has asked all the nine medical colleges, including AIIMS, RML, Lady Hardinge, Safdarjung, PGI Chandigarh, NIMHANS Bangalore, JIPMER Pondicherry and Central Institute of Psychiatry in Ranchi, to assess their infrastructure and frame a plan to increase the number of seats.
The striking anti-reservation medicos held another round of talks with the government but the exercise failed to make headway as the students and resident doctors insisted the Centre give its response in writing to their demands and decided to continue their agitation.
During the three-hour talks, the government is understood to have conveyed to the medicos its decision to double the number of under graduate seats in medical education institutions, hike the retirement age of AIIMS faculty members from 60 to 65 and set up six more AIIMS across the country.
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good work doc!
This debate has no ends to it. So let us try to address this from a different point of view.
The problem:
OBCs are not able to compete with the General category in institutes of Higher Educations.
Solution given by the Govt:
To tackle this problem, the Govt has though of increasing the reserved quota for OBCs by 27%.
This led to protests all over india. Finally Govt decides Rs 8,000 crore extra has to be spent by the Govt to maintain the current quota distribution as well as increase the OBC quota so that the general category seats do no shrink.
Lets find out how effective will this be.
1. Does the Govt has enough funds to handle this whooping Rs 8,000 crores ?
If Govt has so much money (Rs 8,000 crore) to maintain the quota distribution, then why don't they spend this amount to set up good institutions for the economically backward OBCs. I suppose the upper caste OBCs are much well placed and economically quite sufficient to take care of themselves and already they are into good institutions through the current quota reservations. Secondly if these institutes are performing good then companies will throng to these institutes for recruitment because industry recruitment is based on merit and not on caste (though some are trying to impose such things).
2. The OBC students might get through into these institutions of Higher education through their quotas but will they ever pass out of these institutions if their basics, learnt in junior school, are not clear?
Hence the main problem to be addressed is not at the Higher level education but their basic primary and secondary education which has to be brought up to the standard of any city based school. I am confident that then they will be able to compete with the general category of students on a much more healthy platform and not based on caste or category.
3. We are not against OBCs or their betterment. We are against the division of society on the basis of quota. We want a better india, a global india and a better healthy environment for our future generation to grow up.
Whereas in other countries there is no concept of castes or categories such as SC/ST/OBC it is in India that such problems will continue to be a nightmare for not just the General Category of students but in future for the SC/ST/OBC categories as well, if these students are not trained properly and then they are left on the global platform to fend for themselves.
i support your fight against reservation for caste. Itshould be to economically backwards only. OBCs were not untouchables in the past. Rani Ahilyadevi Holkar was the ruler. Her caste is Dhangar. People of NamdevShimpi (OBC) were giving loans to Peshwa. They were having their business and earning better. On the other hand Brahmins were poor. Sudama, Dronacharya are the examples of that. Maharshi Karve, Lal Bahadur Shastri and many others came from poor family. Brahmins who were revolutionist in majority before independence,fought against british, are now a days denied in every field particularly in Govt services. Savarkar, rajguru, chandrashekhar azad, vb phadke, chapekar are the examples. Upper caste students who score more marks than obc scst students could not get seat or job for the reason that their population is small. That means in India, Population of caste is more important than talent.
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