Baalu urges Union health minister to implement 27% OBC reservation in all-India quota of medical seats

CHENNAI: DMK Lok Sabha member and party leader in Parliament T R Baalu has requested Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya to implement 27% reservation for OBCs in all- India quota of medical seats.
Tamil Nadu has been the land of social justice for so many decades and trying to make inclusive growth covering the OBCs, SCs and STs, who are peacefully living in the state, Baalu said.
“But to our dismay, (it is not implemented) even after the Madras high court asked the Medical Council of India in the year 2020 as to why they were not implementing the 27% reservation for OBCs for all India quota seats even when they are being followed in central government medical institutions,” Baalu wrote in a letter to Union minister Mandaviya.
Due to non-availability of OBC reservation in all-India quota seats, between the years 2017 and 2020, around 11,000 OBC students have lost their chance to enrol themselves in MBBS, BDS, MS and MDS among others, he said.
“Even after forwarding the representations of various OBC associations to the then Union Health minister, the central government has not initiated any action so far to implement the 27% reservation for OBCs in the all India quota seats. I would like to request you, on behalf of Tamil Nadu, to kindly issue suitable instructions to the concerned authorities, for expediting the long pending issue,” Baalu said.