Withdraw OBC quota at PG level, docs tell Centre

Tue, Apr 22 01:40 AM

RESIDENT DOCTORS at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - who spearheaded the anti-quota agitation in May 2005 - have given the central government a 48-hour ultimatum to withdraw the reservation for OBCs at the post graduate level. And if the ultimatum does not have a desired effect, the doctors are considering a strike.

"We have not yet decided how we will agitate, but we are not ruling out the option of staying away from work," said Kaushal, Resident Doctors Association (RDA) secretary and a core member of Youth for Equality- a student body protesting against OBC reservations and exclusion of the creamy layer from the ambit of reservation. "We have to resort to such ways because even before the quota is implemented the court directions have been violated," he added speaking after the RDA general body meeting on late Monday evening.

The Supreme Court had ruled against reservation of seats for the postgraduates, saying that that once a student was a graduate he fell within the purview of 'educational creamy layer.' Another bone of contention is the revision of the 'beneficiary' list.

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