There'll be no reservation in admissions to PG medical science courses in the prestigious AIIMS during the current academic year.
NEW DELHI: There'll be no reservation in admissions to post-graduate medical science courses in the prestigious AIIMS during the current academic year----2006-7.
The Supreme Court on Friday put its seal on the Union Health Ministry's decision against providing a quota. Additional solicitor general Gopal Subramanium disclosed that no seats were available from the All-India quota for SC-ST category students during the current academic session.
A Bench of Justices K G Balakrishnan and D K Jain accepted Subramanium's contention. The counsel also said that the reservation policy would be in place from the next academic year.
On April 28, the Bench had directed the Centre to keep aside 10 per cent seats in each subject for SC and ST aspirants. The government couldn't comply with this direction as all the seats from All-India quota had already been allotted to the basis of merit alone.
SC had allowed other states to implement the reservation policy in admissions to the state quota according to their own reservation policy. Since the first counseling session was over, no seats were left vacant that could be given to the SC and ST category students, the Centre had said.
Recently, Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh's reservation policy in admissions led to a nationwide agitation by students opposed to it. Arjun Singh had announced 27 per cent reservation for OBC students, while 22.5 per cent reservation was entitled for SC-ST candidates, leaving only 50 per cent seats for the general category students.
Meanwhile, union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said on Friday that there is no problem if poor children from the upper castes also get reservation in the educational institutions.
"I have no objection for 5 to 10 per cent reservation to needy upper caste children by amending the Constitution," he said. However, he made it clear that reservation for OBCs should be implemented.
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