The Nagpur bench gave its ruling last week on a petition filed by students who have appeared for NEET MDS-2019 examination.
Amidst the ongoing Lok Sabha poll campaign, several organisations representing the Maratha community including the Maratha Kranti Morcha (MKM) have made an appeal to the state government to intervene so that the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court can vacate its ad interim stay on declaration of first select list to fill Post-Graduate (PG) seats of Dental Courses. The Nagpur bench gave its ruling last week on a petition filed by students who have appeared for NEET MDS-2019 examination. The stay is till April 10 when the high court has convened next hearing.
The petitioners cited many glitches in reservation for various categories and injustice towards socially and educationally backward classes (SCBC). According to the petitioners, of the 383 MDS seats in dental colleges, 36 are earmarked for OBCs, while 61 are for SEBCs. In private medical colleges, out of 469 PG seats, 45 are earmarked for OBCs and 75 are for SEBCs.
MKM convener Vinod Patil, who has been at the forefront to press for reservation for Maratha community in jobs and education said, "The state government should file the relevant information with PG admission in dental courses on April 10 so that stay can be vacated. This will pave way for the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) to declare the list of Master of Dental Surgery (MDS).''
The Nagpur bench ruling comes days after the Bombay high court refused to put PG medical admissions on hold, following a plea submitted by 10 general category aspirants who requested a stay on the process.
Pro Maratha quota research activist Balasaheb Sarate expressed displeasure over the state government for not presenting the faces of the case at the time of hearing of the petition opposing the SEBS reservation in the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court. ''Consequently, the high court granted an interim stay for publication of final list of PG Dental courses. We hope the government will present legal facts before the high court on next hearing slated for April 10,'' he noted.
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