Open Category Students Unhappy with Maharashtra Medical Admissions
For postgraduate medical admissions in Maharashtra, open category students now have 233 seats in government medical colleges, while Maratha community students have 156 seats reserved for them across 21 government postgraduate medical colleges in the state.
Open category medical aspirants, who had challenged the Maharashtra government's ordinance regarding the implementation of 16 per cent quota for the Maratha community, were disappointed even after the Bombay High Court reduced the quota to 12 per cent.
Currently, there are 233 seats in government medical colleges for postgraduate courses whereas the Maratha community students have around 156 seats reserved for them in 21 government medical colleges in the Maharashtra state. One of the petitioners informed that they are unhappy with the judgement as he got admission in the ENT department of Bombay Hospital.
Some of the students further informed that their legal battle against the government has been going since February and they even managed to get two court orders in their favour before the government came with an order to implement the SEBC reservation.
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In the first week of May itself, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court scrapped the SEBC reservation for this academic year. According to the bench, the medical admissions under NEET- National Entrance cum Eligibility Test began before the SEBC notification came out.
Out of the 972 postgraduate medical seats, only 233 are left for more than 2,000 students belonging to open category. Courses such as orthopaedics, ENT, chest medicine, psychiatry are left with very few seats in the open category.