HC to hear PIL on reservation in medical seats

Mumbai, Sep 11 (UNI) The Bombay High Court will hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) tomorrow, challenging the reservation policy of Maharashtra in medical admissions.

The PIL, that was filed by the People's Health Organisation (India), a city-based NGO, on July 13 through its counsel Ajay Panikar, would come up for hearing before the division bench of Justices J N Patel and Amjad Sayed.

The High Court, according to the NGO, sought detailed submission from the State Government on the allegations leveled in the PIL on the ever-increasing Constitutional and extra-Constitutional reservations, leaving behind a meager 15 per cent seats for open merit students in the government-run medical, dental and other professional colleges.

The rejoinder filed in the PIL by the petitioner has brought out the facts of aberration of reservations based on the current year's medical and dental admissions in Maharashtra.

UNI