New Delhi: Reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has narrowed down the general category seats at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). AIIMS is still struggling to fit in the OBC creamy layer, despite the government announcing a mandatory 27% quota for the OBCs three years ago across the educational institutions in the country.
The main reason behind the general category seats at the AIIMS, which still continues to suffer, is that most creamy layer students get accommodated in the general category itself on merit. And for general students, it means fewer seats. According to the government's directive, general students should occupy 50 per cent of seats, 15 per cent by the schedule caste and 7.5 per cent by the schedule tribe and 27 per cent OBC.
Three years down the line, it has been observed that the OBC quota has still not been implemented successfully at AIIMS, as it fails to provide OBC seats in the reserved category. The problem, as revealed by the result of a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by the father of an MBBS aspirant, is that the seats from the general category at AIIMS are also being given to students from the OBC category.
