NEET PG students protest against reservation policy in Srinagar
Srinagar, Dec 9: Amid the row over reservation rules, the medico students on Monday staged a sit-in protest over what they called excessive reservation in NEET- PG this year
The medico students demanded a 2018 merit of 75 percent for the open merit quota.
Holding placards, the postgraduate students assembled at the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar said the reservation for the open quota has come down now to only 27 percent following the implementation of the new reservation policy.
Talking to media persons a student said that there are only two seats for the students who desire to do a specialisation course in Pulmonology, besides in Radiology and Medicine the number of seats remains less.
He said there should be a level of competency in a doctor to go in the specialisation courses which is being determined by the NEET PG.
He said the SRO 49 was determining the specialisation of doctors for selection for the PG courses and it had kept 75 percent for the open merit category quota which has now been reduced to 27 percent only.
He alleged that post-2018 there are only 27 percent reservations for the better ranked doctors in the list of MD and MS.
“Where will the competent doctors go”, he questioned and added, “what is the future for us”.
The students alleged that the government is playing with their future.
“This is an injustice to us and we are being forced to come on the streets”, they said.
The protesters urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to immediately intervene in this matter.
The issue of reservation is no longer limited to jobs, but NEET PG students studying in various medical colleges also have to go through this injustice to get admission in MD and MS, another student said.
She said that under SRO 49, open merit students were given a 75 percent quota for MS and MD, but now as a result of the new reservation policy, only students from different categories are benefiting from it.
“If only 27 percent reserved for open merit students, where will we go, justice should be done with us”” she demanded.
She also alleged that if PG students with low marks are selected for MS and MD, it will also have a negative impact on the health sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
The protesters further said that this policy is applicable only in Jammu and Kashmir.–(UNI)
