OBC quota in AIIMS from this year: Ramadoss

A day after the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in higher educational institutions, the Central Government today said that the new system of OBC reservation would be implemented in the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from the coming academic session.

New Delhi:  A day after the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in higher educational institutions, the Central Government today said that the new system of OBC reservation would be implemented in the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) from the coming academic session. AIIMS was the epicentre of protests during the anti-quota agitations two years back.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in the city, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said that 'hopefully AIIMS will get quota this year'. On the issue of creamy layer among OBCs being excluded from the ambit of the reservation, the Health Minister said, "Since the Mandal Commission allowed quota in employment in 1990, only 5.3 per cent seats have been filled out of the 27 per cent". "This is what will happen to this quota also if the creamy layer is kept out," he said.

Ramadoss, however, said the issue of the exclusion of the creamy layer and children of MPs and MLAs would be taken up at both the Cabinet and the UPA level. "There are so many ex-MPs who have fallen on hard times and some MLAs even do not take home their salaries. To keep their children out of the reservation ambit would be unfair," he added. (PTI)

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