Suddenly, the "OBC reservations" has opened the Pandora's Box.
The popular view (among the urban middle-class educated people) is that "quota" is bad - and dilutes the "merit"...
Frankly, I also became aware of the various kinds of "quotas" that exist to access the "temples of higher education" in India across the states. Most have been accepted (er...why???) as a given - and, to my knowledge no candle march or hunger strike ever took place against these!!
...that is, till the "OBC quota" came up, and opened a Pandora's Box.... here is a list:
The Quota Trophy, paradoxically, goes to AIIMS:
While the AIIMS medicos go on hunger photogenic strike against the "reservations" (what with celebrity endorsement from Nafisa Ali and Shiv Khera)... there is no mention that 25% seats in the AIIMS PG course are "reserved" for AIIMS graduates).
Just quoting from a news item in TOI:
"25% reservation that AIIMS graduates get in PG admission and the Supreme Court judgment of 2001 that declares the earlier system of 33% reservation for them bad in law...
The HC had found that "AIIMS students, who had secured as low as 14% or 19% or 22% in the (all-India) entrance examination got admission to PG courses while SC or ST candidates could not secure admission in their 15% or 7% quota in PG courses, in spite of having obtained marks far higher than the in-house candidates of the institute." HC had analysed admission data over five years.
The apex court also agreed with the HC that the "figure of 33% reservation for in-house candidates was statistically so arrived at as to secure 100% reservation for AIIMS students. There were about 40 AIIMS candidates. The PG seats being 120, 33% thereof worked out to be 40." That meant all 40 AIIMS graduates were assured of PG seats.
Merit here was clearly being sacrificed, the study showed...
....Twelve AIIMS candidates were selected even though they got less marks than the SC candidate who secured 60.33% marks. Similarly, 16 AIIMS students got admission to PG courses even though they got less marks than another ST student who got 62.16%.
Etc.
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i would like to point out that author of TOI has not done his homework well, he just wanted to add fuel to fire.
1-50 % marks are essential to qualyfy
2-while quota on caste basis is implimented branch wise, but AIIMS in house quata is implemented in such a way that 75 % off all seats r first filled on GC merit list and then remaining 25 % seats (which does not include any of the clinical branches, and hence nobody cares) are offered to inhouse candidate which allmost all of them refuse and converted to GC seats in second round.so if any in-house cand happens to be doing PG in AIIMS its because of his rank in GC merit list
Thanks for highlighting the AIIMS PG quota; it's a prominent example showing how access to a reservation-based seat in premier educational institutions has a high correlation with the stifling of ambition and excellence. As successive generations of AIIMS graduates utilised the quota to enter the PG course, their motivation towards mastery of the entrance requirements steadily decayed, until the Supreme Court had to step in.
Nice post. I thank you for it.
Ah, nice post. My main reservation with the current agitations by the medicos is that the very nature of their protests makes a debate at a larger scale impossible. Reservation quotas are not a new concept in India; we need a bigger discussion on this than just taking to the streets.
Thanks for the useful information.
Information is an eye opener.
I am trying to host a web site to address the College/University quota's system. To start with the site basically will have all the universities and its affiliated colleges with offered courses and number of seats. The information can be expanded as we go on. Further, I haven’t found any one site that deals with this quota issue.
I am looking for participation where by the participants can themselves maintain the data by universities/colleges. Can anyone help get me in touch with the protester panel?
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