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Doctors at AIIMS threaten to intensify stir

NEW DELHI: The agitation by doctors belonging to the reserved category at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here entered its eighth day on Wednesday with the group now claiming to have found support from some undergraduate students in the institution.

Threatening to intensify the agitation in protest against alleged discrimination in the recent selection of senior residents at the Institute, the protesting doctors had approached the National Scheduled Castes Commission for redress of their grievances. “The Institution has adopted the ‘floating reservation’ system, which is unconstitutional. Also, since we have got no positive response from the Institute’s Director P. Venugopal or the Union Health Minister we are forced to continue the agitation,” said Kapil Yadav of AIIMS, who is treasurer of the Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum. “A majority of the doctors from the reserved category are part of the agitation. The AIIMS administration has claimed that only those not selected during the recently held written test-cum-interview for selection of senior residents are making a hue and cry, which is not the case. The reservation policy of AIIMS is unconstitutional and the floating reservation implemented in the Institute since 1987 has led to gross under-representation of doctors from the reserved category,” added Dr. Yadav.

Meanwhile, the undergraduate students from the reserved category at the Institute have demanded an end to segregation on caste basis in hostels and the mess. The Institute administration maintained that the claims of discrimination against SC/ST students at AIIMS were not true.

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