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Medicos Forum criticises Centre

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Blames Centre for "discrimination against students and doctors of reserved category"

NEW DELHI: The Medicos Forum for Equal Opportunities at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has blamed the UPA Government at the Centre for the "blatant discrimination against students and doctors of reserved category'' in various medical colleges of Delhi.

"While on one hand the UPA Government wants to take credit for upholding the reservation policy, on the other it has paid little attention to the harassment that reserved category students and doctors have been facing since the beginning of the anti-reservation agitation and is continuing till date. It is indeed ironical that those who opposed the Governments' policy on reservation are the ones who are on the offensive, while doctors and students who rose up to defend the Governments' policy statement on reservations are at the receiving end in different medical colleges of the Capital,'' said Vikash Bajpai of the Forum said at a press conference here.

A team of the Forum investigated the discrimination being meted out to reserved category students at AIIMS hostels.

According to Dr. Bajpai, ever since the anti-reservation agitation came to an end, caste harassment has taken an institutionalised form at the Institute. The faculty, resident doctors and students belonging to the upper castes have gheraoed both the Dean and the Sub-Dean in the recent past, he added. Dr. Bajpai said the enquiry revealed that reserved category students were seeking rooms on the top floors of hostel Nos. 4 and 5 because they felt discrimination against by the general category students. He added that at least three instances of overt verbal and written threats and use of abusive language have been reported in the recent past.

The AIIMS authorities have made no efforts to stem this rot setting in the social climate of its students' campus, he said

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