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New Delhi: The premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), whose doctors were in the forefront of the anti-quota stir two years ago, will implement the 27 per cent quota for "other backward classes" (OBCs) from the new academic year.
Expressing the "hope" that the institute would be able to implement the quota from the session that begins in August, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss yesterday said the issue of increasing seats and infrastructure at the institute would be "addressed".
His remarks come a day after the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent quota for the OBCs in institutes of higher learning.
Ramadoss, speaking at the first National Health Writers and Communicators Convention here, said: "Since the Mandal Commission allowed quota in employment in 1990, only 5.3 per cent seats have been filled of the 27 per cent.
"This is what will happen to this quota also if the creamy layer is kept out," he said about the court's insistence that the creamy layer of socially backward classes should be kept out of the reserved seats.
On the issue of graduates not availing quota benefits if they have already done that once, the health minister said, "We will go through the details of the court order and then decide."
He, however, said that the issue of the exclusion of the creamy layer and children of parliamentarians and legislators would be taken up at both the cabinet and the United Progressive Alliance level. "There are so many ex-MPs who have fallen on hard times," he said.
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