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OBC Reservation in Medical Admissions
July 30 , 2020
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- The Madras High Court ruled that there was no constitutional or legal impediment to extending the benefit of reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in college admissions.
- The ruling claims that reservation to OBCs can be extended in admissions to medical and dental seats contributed to the All India Quota (AIQ) by State government-run medical and dental colleges.
- The judges directed the Centre to constitute a committee to fix the percentage and other terms for OBC reservation from next year.
- AIQ was basically a creation of the Supreme Court judgment passed in September 1986.
- Accordingly, State governments began surrendering 15% of medical and dental seats in undergraduate studies and 50% of postgraduate seats to the AIQ.
- Till then, all seats in State government medical and dental colleges were filled up only with local residents of the respective States.
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