{"id":122329,"date":"2021-07-30T20:31:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=122329"},"modified":"2021-07-31T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:45:15","slug":"landmark-decision-taken-by-government-of-india-in-medical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/landmark-decision-taken-by-government-of-india-in-medical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark decision taken by Government of India in Medical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1740268\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Central Government has announced that it will provide 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation for the economically weaker section(EWS). It will be provided under the All India Quota (AIQ) scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate medical\/dental courses in state medical and dental colleges from 2021-22.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About All India Quota(AIQ) Scheme:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The All India Quota (AIQ) <\/strong>Scheme was introduced in 1986 under the direction of the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: It provides for domicile-free merit-based opportunities to students from any State to aspire to study in a good medical college located in another State.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All India Quota <\/strong>consisted of 15% of total available UG seats and 50% of total available PG seats in government medical colleges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Initially, <\/strong>there was no reservation in the AIQ Scheme up to 2007. In 2007, the Supreme Court introduced a reservation of 15% for SCs and 7.5% for STs in the AIQ Scheme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover<\/strong>, when the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act became effective in 2007 providing for uniform 27% reservation to OBCs, the same was implemented in all the Central Educational Institutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, <\/strong>this was not extended to the AIQ seats of State medical and dental colleges. This has been done now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this decision:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OBC and EWS students <\/strong>from across the country will now be able to take advantage of this reservation in the AIQ scheme to compete for seats in any state.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, <\/strong>being a central scheme, the central list of OBCs shall be used for this reservation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This decision <\/strong>is in sync with the reforms carried out in the field of medical education since 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the six years to 2020, <\/strong>MBBS seats in the country have increased by 56% to 84,649 and the number of postgraduate seats has increased by 80% to 54,275 seats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>During the same period, <\/strong>179 new medical colleges have been established, for a total of 558 medical colleges (269 of them are run by private operators).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Central Government has announced that it will provide 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation for the economically weaker section(EWS). It will be provided under the All India Quota (AIQ) scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate medical\/dental courses in state medical and dental colleges from 2021-22. 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