Guj medics urge constitution of panel to resolve quota issue

Gandhinagar, May 22 (UNI) Agitating medical students and junior doctors today handed over a memorandum to Gujarat Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma, urging the Centre to appoint a high-level committee of apolitical experts to find an early solution to the reservation issue.

The agitationists urged the Centre to ask the committee to submit its report within 15 days, a spokesperson of the medicos told UNI.

Their other demands include asking the Centre to make its stand clear on the vexed issue of proposed 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in institutes of higher learning.

They demanded that all reserved posts lying vacant for long be filled up by candidates from general category and that no doctor taking part in the current agitation be punished.

The agitating medicos requested the Governor to convey their feelings to the Centre. The existing reservation system should be scrapped as it has proved to be a failure despite being in force for the last 60 years, they said.

They also submitted a copy of the memorandum to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Earlier, students from medical, dental and physiotherapy colleges, besides junior doctors, assembled here from all over the state and staged a rally.

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