The OBC quota in the All India package on medical education should not be delayed .... Ramadhas

PMK founder Ramdhas insisted that the OBC quota in the All India package in medical education should not be delayed.

In this regard, the statement issued by Ramadas today (June 25):

"The Central Government has stated that it is ready to provide reservation to other backward classes in Tamil Nadu in the All India package for medical education.

In a reply petition filed on behalf of the Central Government in a case pending in the Chennai High Court in this regard, it was stated that the Central Government is ready to provide reservation to other backward classes for admission to medical education as far as places in Tamil Nadu are concerned. However, the decision will be left to the Supreme Court in the case of Salonikumar, after which the reservation for other backward classes can be implemented. This is the equivalent of guiding a city that is not going.

There is no need for the Central Government to seek permission or inform the Supreme Court regarding the provision of reservation to other backward class students in the All India constituency.

This is because the Chennai High Court, which had on July 27 last year ruled that all backward classes in the All India quota for medical studies could be given reservation either by the Central Government or by the State Government, has laid down very clear the procedures to be followed for that.

On behalf of Bamaga, various parties, including its youth leader and former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, ruled in the case that 'the All India package for medical studies does not preclude reservation for other backward classes. There is no compulsion that the Supreme Court should decide on the reservation. The Central Government may decide on the reservation. The Central Government may set up a committee to decide on this and, on its recommendation, grant the OBC reservation from the next academic year.

In its recommendation to the Secretary, Ministry of Health, dated 21.10.2020, the 5-member Committee on Medical Education of the Central and State Governments constituted accordingly, it was stated that it was possible to provide reservation for other backward classes in All India allotted seats.

'Reservation can be given at any level as 50% in practice in Tamil Nadu or 27% as at national level; But for that the law must be passed in Parliament; It was also suggested that the total seats in the All India constituency should be increased in proportion to the percentage of seats allotted to OBCs so as not to reduce the allocation to the general public.

The federal government may have accepted this recommendation and ever made a reservation for the OBC class if it had thought. But, the federal government did not do that.

The Chennai High Court has made it clear in its judgment that there is no compulsion for the Supreme Court to decide on the reservation of OBCs in the All India constituency.

In addition, when the parties, including Bamaka, filed a case in the Supreme Court seeking reservation for OBCs in All India constituency seats, the Supreme Court itself directed them to approach the Chennai High Court in this regard.

Accordingly, the OBC has been ordered to grant reservation only in the case pending in the Chennai High Court. In such a scenario, approaching the Supreme Court again in this regard would cause unnecessary hassle and delay.

Salonikumar will be out of the case if he gives reservation to other backward classes in the All India package and informs the Supreme Court about it. That would be the perfect solution. It would not be fair to say that the OBC reservation will be granted only with the permission of the Supreme Court.

Now, 35 years after the creation of the All India Package for Medical Studies, it is still unreasonable to deny reservation to other backward classes.

Therefore, on the recommendation of the 5 member committee, reservation should be given to other backward classes in the All India constituency without any conditions like additional seats should be created.

I urge that the law be passed in Parliament in the coming session and implemented from the current academic year. "

Thus said Ramadhas.