New Delhi: Union Ministry of Health and Welfare Family decided on Thursday to provide 27 percent of reservations to other backwards (OBC) and 10 percent of reservations for more economically weaker parts (EWS) in the All India Scheme Quota (AIQ) for medical courses ,
This reservation is intended for medical and medical and dental graduate programs – MBBS, MD, MS, Diploma, BDS and MDS – from the current academic year (2021-22) and so on.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting held on July 26 has directed the union ministry concerned to facilitate effective solutions for this long-awaited problem.
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Immediately after the decision, Modi praised the steps in a series of tweets, by saying: “Our government has made a decision of the landmark to provide a 27% reservation for OBC and a 10% order for a more economically weaker part in the Indian quota scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate.
Course Medical / Dental from the current academic year.
“It will greatly help thousands of our youth every year get a better opportunity and create a new paradigm of social justice in our country.”
The decision will benefit nearly 1,500 OBC students in MBBS and 2,500 OBC students in postgraduate courses, in addition to profitable around 550 EWS students in MBBS and around 1,000 EWS students at postgraduate cousins every year.
The AIQ scheme was introduced in 1986 under the Supreme Court’s instructions to provide domicile-based opportunities for students from any country to study at a medical college located in other countries.
AIQ consists of 15 percent of available total undergraduate seats and 50 percent of total postgraduate seats available at government medical institutions.
Initially, there was no reservation in the AIQ scheme until 2007.
In 2007, the Supreme Court had introduced a 15 percent reservation for SCS and 7.5 percent reservation for STS in the AIQ scheme.
When the Central Education Institution (Entrance Reservation) acted effectively in 2007, providing a 27 percent uniform reservation for OBC, which is equally implemented in all central education institutions such as Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Harding Medical College, Muslim University of Aligarh and Hindu University Banaras etc.
However, this is not expanded to the AIQ chair from medical and state teeth colleges.
Being a central scheme, the OBC center list must be used for this booking.
About 1,500 OBC students on MBBS and 2,500 in post graduates will benefit through this reservation.
To provide benefits for students who are included in the EWS category in revenue to higher education institutions, the constitutional amendment is carried out in 2019 which allows the provisions of the 10 percent reservation for the EWS category.
Therefore, seats in medical and teeth colleges increased for two years in 2019-20 and 2020-21 to accommodate reservations of 10 percent of these additional EWS so that the total number of seats available for the non-studied category did not diminish.
Over the past six years, the MBBS seat in this country has increased by 56 percent from 54,348 in 2014 to 84,649 by 2020, while the number of PG seats has increased by 80 percent from 30,191 by 2020.
During the same period, 179 new medical colleges have been established and now this country has 558 medical colleges, including 289 colleges and 269 private institutions.
