Over 11,000 OBC Category Seats Lost in MBBS Colleges in Last 4 Years of Modi Raj!

Fight Back Anti-reservation Policies of RSS – BJP!

In a shocking development, it has come to notice that the Modi Government deprived more than 11,000 aspirants belonging to the OBC category from the admission process via NEET (National Eligibility and Entrance Test) within a span of four years across the country. NEET is a country-wide test for admissions in MBBS and BDS courses.

In spite of legal pronouncements, the BJP Government is dillydallying in the implementation of OBC reservations. As a result of that, All India Federation of Other Backward Classes Employees Welfare Association pointed out, 7,307 seats and 3,207 OBC category seats were scuttled respectively in post graduate and under graduate medical courses in a span of four years. Again, 262 seats and 251 seats for OBC categories were lost in PG dental and undergraduate dental courses, respectively.

But this is nothing new in Modi raj. Educational, job and other opportunities for the marginalized sections are systematically snatched away by decimating reservations; fighters of social justice are incriminated and institutionally murdered while perpetrators of casteist massacres roam free. The BJP Govt has systematically scuttled reservation in higher educational institutions. The UGC had issued a notification dated 5th May, 2016 regarding M. Phil/PhD admissions. In the name of maintaining student-teacher ratio, what the regulation effectively has resulted into is massive seat-cut and decimation of reservation in M. Phil/PhD admission. Reservations in faculty recruitments were scuttled by making departments (13 point roaster) rather than the entire institution (200 point roaster) as the basis of reservation roster system. After massive protests, the Government was forced to backtrack.

This continuous assault on the policies of social justice is also tandem with RSSs anti-reservation worldview. Golwalkar opposed reservation: “Dr. Ambedkar had envisaged the special privileges for Scheduled Castes for only 10 years from the day we became a Republic in 1950. But it is going on, being extended. Continued special privileges on the basis of caste only, is bound to create vested interests in them in remaining as a separate entity. That would harm their integration with the rest of the society.” (M. S. Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, 1966, p 271)

On behalf of AISA, we demand that the Government must stop scuttling OBC reservations in medical and dental admissions. And we must unitedly rise up, fight back and resist the assaults on policies of social justice in Modi Raj.