Shillong: After threatening to discontinue the MBBS course at North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Meghalaya if the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) continued to pressurise the Union Health Ministry for 30 per cent seat-reservation for tribals, Union Health Secretary Naresh Dayal agreed to grant five more seats to placate the students’ body.
NEIGRIHMS has 50 MBBS seats of which 24 seats will be reserved for students from other northeastern states which do not have medical colleges.
In a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday, Dayal reportedly told Meghalaya Chief Secretary Ranjan Chatterjee that the Centre was willing to discontinue the MBBS course in NEIGRIHMS if the KSU tried to armtwist the Government into conceding to its demand of 30 per cent seat reservation for tribals.
The KSU had earlier stalled the MBBS entrance examination that was to be held in Shillong on August 3 to pressurise the Ministry into conceding to its demand. The Ministry then decided to hold the entrance examination in Guwahati but the KSU had protested.
NEIGRIHMS has 50 MBBS seats of which 24 seats will be reserved for students from other northeastern states which do not have medical colleges.
In a meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday, Dayal reportedly told Meghalaya Chief Secretary Ranjan Chatterjee that the Centre was willing to discontinue the MBBS course in NEIGRIHMS if the KSU tried to armtwist the Government into conceding to its demand of 30 per cent seat reservation for tribals.
The KSU had earlier stalled the MBBS entrance examination that was to be held in Shillong on August 3 to pressurise the Ministry into conceding to its demand. The Ministry then decided to hold the entrance examination in Guwahati but the KSU had protested.
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