IATO seeks President's intervention on quota

New Delhi, May 23: Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) has expressed concern over the failure of the official talk with the striking doctors and sought the President's intervention to break the impasse.

''It was unforturnate that on the one hand efforts were being made to find a solution to the reservation issue, and on the other hand the atmosphere for talks was being constantly vitiated by perpetrating atrocities on striking doctors ordering then to vacate the hostels, invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act and arresting them under cooked up charges,'' IATO president Subhash Goyal said in a statement here today.

By making caste and creed the sole criterion of admissions to these professional institutes, the government would kill merit and breed mediocrity, triggering off a class war and making our young men and women unfit for meeting the challenges in the age of globalisation besides lowering the standards of education and affecting medical and other segments of tourism, he addded.

Earlier, IATO had warned the government that medical tourism that was now growing at the rate of 30 per cent and slated to emerge as a two-million dollar industry in the next four to five years, would be severely affected if it encouraged quota system in medical institutes.

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