The High Court of Bombay in Goa on Monday quashed the Goa authorities’s notification reserving 41 per cent post-graduate (PG) seats within the state quota for SC, ST and OBC candidates in Goa Medical College (GMC) and Goa Dental College (GDC). accomplished. From the 2021-22 tutorial 12 months.
Over 100 docs and medical college students had approached the court docket final 12 months towards the state authorities’s choice.
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The state notification dated May 4, 2020, reservation of 12 p.c PG medical seats for ST, 2 p.c for SC and 27 p.c for OBC was partly based mostly on the suggestions of Goa Commission for SC/ST and Goa Commission for OBC . Both had been rejected and dismissed by the court docket.
In their 95-page judgment, Justice MS Sonak and Justice MS Jawalkar stated, “Such a serious decision of reserving 41 per cent of the state quota seats for PG courses in GMCs should have been taken before a host had brainstormed. The relevant views referred to in several judgments of the Hon’ble Supreme Court on the subject as well as those identified by the Dean of GMC in his letter/comments…”
They had been referring to the letter dated March 16, 2020, by Shivanand Bandekar, Dean of GMC, to the State Under Secretary (Health) that admission to PG programs in GMC was up to now with none reservation for SC, ST and OBC class…” The choice for PG seats was accomplished purely on advantage (NEET-PG) rating. This was as a result of PG college students take care of emergencies… to get high quality service, no reservation is stored for any class as GMC is the one medical faculty in Goa…” he stated in his letter.
Following the court docket’s choice, the Congress attacked the ruling BJP for its lack of ability to defend caste-based reservation in PG medical programs. Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar stated, “This government is anti-Bahujan Samaj… It reflects the ideology of the RSS which has been against SC, ST, OBC.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
