'27 per cent quota for OBCs, 10 pc for EWS candidates in MBBS, PG med courses'

Prime Minister Narendra Modiled government took a decision for providing 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Section EWS in the All India Quota AIQ scheme in medical educationAccording to an official statement issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday Prime Minister in a meeting held on Monday had directed the Union Ministries concerned to facilitate an effective solution to this long pending issueModi also posted about the announcement on TwitterThis will immensely help thousands of our youth every year get better opportunities and create a new paradigm of social justice in our countrymdash Narendra Modi narendramodi July 29 2021Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken a historic and a landmark decision for providing 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Section EWS in the All India Quota AIQ Scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate medicaldental courses MBBS MD MS Diploma BDS MDS from the current academic year 202122 onwards the release informedThis decision would benefit every year nearly 1500 OBC students in MBBS and 2500 OBC students in postgraduation and also around 550 EWS students in MBBS and around 1000 EWS students in postgraduationAlso Read OBC resolution to be moved by Maha govt in Legislature misleading Devendra FadnavisThe All India Quota AIQ Scheme was introduced in 1986 under the directions of the Honble Supreme Court to provide for domicilefree meritbased opportunities to students from any state to aspire to study in a good medical college located in another state All India Quota consists of 15 per cent of total available UG seats and 50 per cent of total available PG seats in government medical colleges Initially there was no reservation in AIQ Scheme up to 2007In 2007 the Supreme Court introduced reservations of 15 per cent for SCs and 75 per cent for STs in the AIQ Scheme When the Central Educational Institutions Reservation in Admission Act became effective in 2007 providing for uniform 27 per cent reservation to OBCs the same was implemented in all the Central Educational Institutions like Safdarjung Hospital Lady Harding Medical College Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu UniversityHowever this was not extended to the AIQ seats of state medical and dental collegesThe present government is committed to providing due reservation both to the backward category as well as the EWS category The Union Government has now taken a historic decision to provide for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for EWS in the AIQ Scheme The OBC students from across the country shall now be able to take benefit of this reservation in AIQ Scheme to compete for seats in any state the statement saidBeing a Central Scheme the Central List of OBCs shall be used for this reservation Around 1500 OBC students in MBBS and 2500 in postgraduation will be benefitted through this reservation it addedIn order to provide benefit to students belonging to the EWS category in admission to higher educational Institutions a Constitutional amendment was made in 2019 which enabled the provision of 10 per cent reservation for the EWS categoryAccordingly seats in medicaldental colleges were increased over two years in 201920 and 202021 to accommodate this additional 10 per cent EWS reservation so that the total number of seats available for the unreserved category do not reduce In the AIQ seats however this benefit had not been extended so farTherefore along with the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs 10 per cent reservation for EWS is also being extended in AIQ seats for all the undergraduatepostgraduate medicaldental courses from the current academic year 202122This will benefit every year around more than 550 EWS students for MBBS and around 1000 EWS students for PG medical coursesThis decision is also in sync with the significant reforms carried out in the field of medical education since 2014During the last six years MBBS Seats in the country have increased by 56 per cent from 54348 seats in 2014 to 84649 seats in 2020 and the number of PG seats have increased by 80 per cent from 30191 seats in 2014 to 54275 seats in 2020 During the same period 179 new medical colleges have been established and now the country has 558 medical colleges including 289 government and 269 privateThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever