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| RS Chib alarmed by bar put by SC on J&K medicos on taking AIIMS test | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, JAN 16: After a week of Supreme Court expressing its displeasure over denial of 15 percent Centre’s share of seats in post graduate medical courses by medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir, the State’s Minister for Medical Education, Youth Services and Sports RS Chib says that he would get the “issue examined before taking suitable action”.
Asked about the response of the J&K Government in the wake of Supreme Court turning down on January 8 the plea of an alumni from a J&K institution of medical learning for being allowed to appear in the entrance test for postgraduate education in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, the Minister said that somehow the medico, Shweta’s case who passed her MBBS in 2007 from Acharya Shrichander College for Medical Sciences and Hospital, better known as Batra College, has thus far not been brought to his notice.
On being told about the details of the case, he said that this could be confined to Batra Medical College, Jammu, alone. But when told that this was far from being the case since no post MBBS education in any of the medical colleges outside the confines of J&K is possible for the medicos coming out of the State-run as also private medical colleges since the countrywide admission tests for postgraduate medical education was conducted by AIIMS and this was quite detrimental to the interests of all the medicos of J&K, RS Chib agreed that the issue was too grave to be ignored any more.
Thanking Early Times that was first to make public the displeasure expressed by their lordships while hearing the petition filed by Shweta, an ASCOMS graduate, which was quickly withdrawn by her lawyer Balbir Singh Gupta as the bench was unrelenting in its adverse opinion while hearing the case on January 8 about the way postgraduate medical seats were being distributed in J&K among the medicos from the State alone, Chib said that the matter certainly “warranted attention” assuring that he would look into this.
The Supreme Court’s observations resulting in the withdrawal as also dismissal of the medico’s case has mainly been due to denial of Central Government’s right by J&K to hold entrance tests for 15 percent seats in postgraduate courses in the State’s medical colleges as is the practice in all States other than J&K.
Chib who has been touring Rajouri on Saturday along with Minister for Health Sham Lal told this correspondent over phone in the evening that he was very much concerned about the unlikely development amounting to restrictions faced by the medicos of the State’s medical colleges in appearing for entrance test for postgraduate medical education by the Centre. He said that he would ask his department to look into the matter and would set right whatever anomaly stood in the way of the medicos of the State as this was a question of their career which should not be put into any kinds of confines whether because of domicile or jurisdictional squabbling.
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