The letter raises alarm given AIIMS “long colourful history and legacy of denial of due rights and discrimination against SC/ST/OBC students, staff and faculty members. It calls on the government to investigate the “violation of reservation policy in current faculty selection”, giving the example of the 2013-2014 selection where 40% of the seats for SC/ST/OBC faculty were left vacant.
Members of the faculty at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have once again reached out to the union health Minister JP Nadda over the ongoing controversy of SC/ST/OBC reservation quota going unfulfilled in the country's premiere medical institute. In a letter dated May 29, addressed to Nadda as the President of the institute, members have raised serious concerns over denial of reservation in faculty posts.
The letter raises alarm given AIIMS “long colourful history and legacy of denial of due rights and discrimination against SC/ST/OBC students, staff and faculty members. It calls on the government to investigate the “violation of reservation policy in current faculty selection”, giving the example of the 2013-2014 selection where 40% of the seats for SC/ST/OBC faculty were left vacant. This has caused apprehension among the faculty members who signed the letter, that an even higher percentage of reserved candidates will be denied their due rights.”
The letter traces AIIMS’ fraught history of not filling reserved quote seats, tying it to the “continued anti-reservation mindset of the AIIMS administration” that made sure that the “reservation policy could not be implemented in true letter or spirit”. The letter asks the government to look into the improper making of the roster for implementation of reservation for quote candidates, where, it says, “DOPT guidelines are not followed properly”. It asks the central government to investigate the manipulation of the roster and the “wrong plotting of 3 vacancies” in recent faculty selections, where it claims reserved seats were given to candidates from the general category. Also, to check the “deliberate and biased non-fulfilment of reserved seats by declaring SC/ST/OBC candidates as ‘not found suitable’.”
AIIMS faculty members, under the banner of Forum for Rights and Equality have written previously to the centre raising these concerns, most recently in May, where they accused the institute’s administration of trying to bypass the proper roster system in faculty selection. In December last year, members of parties such as the SP, the BSP, JD-U and the Congress raised the issue in Parliament asking that the then ongoing faculty selections be stopped till a probe is completed. However, in January this year, the faculty selection process was completed despite much furore.
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