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Stalemate over the quota issue between government and striking medicos continued today with the resident doctors persisting with their demand of setting up an experts committee// to review the reservation policy. The striking medicos are also expected to meet Union Health Secretary P C Hota later in the day. The resident doctors association of AIIMS made an appeal to the p...Medical Students Go On A Strike Over Quota System; Demand To Meet Arjun Singh
Students in five of the leading medical colleges in New Delhi went on a strike in order to protest against the quota system in elite colleges//, which they called as unfair. Students of AIIMS, Safdarjung, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital went on a strike on Wednesday and tried to meet HRD Minister Arjun Singh. Amitasha Sinha, a medical student l...First Formal Protest by Medical Students against Quotas
The medical students in Patna for the first time organized a rally from medical college campus to Kargil chowk in Patna without caring about the scorching heat.// The main aim of the protest is to condemn the government’s move to increase OBC quotas in educational institutions. Students and interns of two medical colleges Patna Medical College and Hospital and the Nalanda Medical College and Hos...Supreme Court Quashed Reservation Quotas For PG Medical Courses
In a relief to the anti-quota camp, the Supreme Court Friday reversed an earlier order directing the government to reserve 10 percent seats on an all-India basis// for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes candidates in post-graduate medical courses for the 2006-07 academic year. A bench of judges K.G. Balakrishnan, A.R. Lakshmanan and D.K. Jain accepted the submissions of Additional S...