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Professor John O'Donoghue (Professor (Emeritus) Mathematics Education UL and Associate Director NCE-MSTL)
Professor John O'Donoghue (Professor (Emeritus) Mathematics Education UL and Associate Director NCE-MSTL)
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·Merit Only? Check AIIMS Post-Graduate Quota .
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Striking S docs .
live in a glass house .
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By Akshaya MukulfTNN .
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New Delhi: The main grouse of AIJMS students -at the forefront of the stir against 27% reserva-tion for OBCs -is that merit is 'Jeing sacrificed at the altar of votebank politics. But they forget rwo things: 25% reservation that AIIMS graduates get in PG admis· .sian and the Supreme Court judg-.
0!'nent of 2001 thatdeclarestilCear-ro~-_·;01 .-:-"'" ''ill.~:-:;-;;:-,;~.:. ,.; ,,1.
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uer system of 33% reservatwn for , ?.
:hem bad in law. HOW S THAT. AI_IMS studen~, who had secur~d a.s low .
In fact. the SC, while stating that ~s 140Vo ~ar~s tn the all-lnd1a entr~nce examma~on, .,.,o mstl'tut'o t' ·-gamed adm1ss1on to PG courses wh1le SC/ST cand1date-s.
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. ti'tuti al'' d 'th were .
uncons on , agree w1 .
the fmdings of the Delhl High Court. which had earlier set aside the reservation. The HC had found that "All:'\IS students. who had se· cured as low as l4°o or l9°o or 22"o in the (all-India)entrance exan1ination gol admission to PG courses while SC or ST candidate::. could not secure admission in their 15% or 7°o quo-ta in PG courses. in sp1te of having obtained marks far higher than the in-housecandidutes of the institute." HC had analy::;ed admission .
d.ata over five years. The apex court also agreed with the HC that the "figure of 33% reservation for in-.
house cand·idates was statistically so arrived at as to secure 100% reservation for AJIMS students. There were about 40 AJlMS candi· dates. The PG seats being 120. 33% thereof worked out to be 40." That meant all 40 AI-IMS graduates were assured of PG scats. .
Merit here was clearly being s:lcr'ificed, .
the study showed. For instance, 111 the Janu-.
ary 1996 session. an AliMS student with .
46.167% marks-lowest for an AllMS stu-.
dent that year-got PG admission. However. .
an SC student with the same grades was ad-.
mitted but denied coveted course such ns .
obstetrics and gynaecology. The SC student .
got shunted to community while AUMS stu-.
dents easily won berths 111 prestigious .
disciplines. .
Twelve AIIMS candidates were selected .
even though they golless mark$ than the SC .
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eme en esp e o tammg 19 er mar s. .
candidate who secured 60.33°o marks. Simj-larly, 16 AITMS students got admission to PG courses even though they got less marks than another ST student who got 62.16°~. .
Basing itself on this study. SC said. "Insti-tutional reservation is not supported by the Constitution or constitutional princj. ples.'' "A ceLi.ain degree of preference for stu-dents of the same institution intended to prusecute further studies therein is permis-siblc on grounds of convenience, suitability and familiarity with an educational environ· .
ment," it added .
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Preferences, the court said, had to be "rea· sonable and not excessive ... Minimum stan-dards cannot be so diluted as to become prnc-tically non-existent." In the similar vein. SC said, "It cannot be forgotten that the medical graduates of AliMS arc not 'sons of soi.l'. They are drawn from all over the country." .
The court reasoned that these students had ''no moorings in Delhi. They are neither backward nor weaker sections of society. Their achieving an all-India merit and entry in the premier institution of national impor-tance should not bring in a broorl ing sense of .
compla«.:ence in them". .
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Extending the damning logic. the court s:tid in preserving quotas for its own students. "the zeal for preserving excellence .
is lost. The students lose craving for learning ·· .
Defeat Yf£ -Proponents of Castetsm, lniusti(e and tnequalitvl.
oown with Anti·Reservationist ABVP-RSS, and lts Underhand Nexus with Yf£\ .
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Old caste .
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Sudarshan ·~ .
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HT Correspondent .
New Delhi, January 27 .
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RSS CHIEF K.S. Sudarshan, who created a storm by asking Cbris··l lians to Indianise the Church1 and more recently asked Hindus! to produce not less than three\ children, has now said "the mu· tual respect and culture in vjl-· 1 lages (in ancienttimes) was such that nobody used to feel the un-.
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touchability·. .
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AddreSSing a function to mark I the centenary celebrations of, Dada Saheb Apte, the founder ofI multilingual news agency HindUS· \ tan Sa.macfwr and the VlShva Hin· .
du Parishad (VHP}, Sudarshan .
said that the ~ .
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earlier caste .:: The caste .
system_ ~v~ system used to I "non-discnml-. I.
natory" and be hke a fence 1 every caste around the : was gJ·\·e~ "j.?b fa.rm, Those ~· .
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"The caste its rules were .
system . used ostracised. .
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to be like a .
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fence around the farm discriminatory. Those who \'i-.
Rather, it .
: elated 'its .
1 rules were os-provided .
1 tracised . It for job.
I was not dis· .
quota .
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criminatory. .
Rather, it pro· .
vided for job reservation. Every l .
caste was given reservation in a .
particularjob. A mason could not .
do a carpenter's job and a car-.
penter could not do a sweeper's .
job." he said. .
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Sudarshan sa1d that though discrepancies and shortcom-ings had crept intCJ the system over a period of time. the viliagJ continued to be a single unit and everyone there was treated .
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''A Brahmin father wou.lrl scold hi.s son if he called an eld-l:!rly person from the Valmlki community (sweepers) by name., He would ask the chUd, despite being a Brahmin, to call tl1e eld· erly person h is uncle," the RSS chief said. .
"Every caste had a panchayat and if anybody was dishonest to his profession, he would be pe· .
nalise<l," he a<"ldcd. .
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