Section of AIIMS doctors to stage protest

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : May 02 2014 | 7:57 PM IST
The contentious issue of reservation in medical instutions will again come to the fore with a section of AIIMS faculty staging a protest tomorrow at Jantar Mantar against the denial of reservations in various medical institutions and other institutions of higher education across the country.
The striking doctors are demanding that those responsible for denial of reservation should face criminal prosecution. They will also submit a memorandum to the President of India.
"The reservation policy is not properly implemented in various institutions. The gross under representation of SC, ST and OBC in the advertisements from other medical institutes clearly suggest that infraction of reservation roster is not only confined to AIIMS.
"We therefore, demand that deliberate and willful denial of reservation through dubious manipulations be made a criminal offence, and those found responsible for the crime be dealt with deterrent punishment," said members of Forum for Rights and Equality and Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum of AIIMS.
Those responsible for undermining the policy of reservation have developed a kind of immunity to any action against them.
To make these accountable, it is imperative that system is put in place wherein infraction of the due rights of SC, ST and OBC is treated as a crime that would attract penal punishment like any other crime under the provisions of Indian Penal Code, they said.
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First Published: May 02 2014 | 7:57 PM IST