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Maharashtra: House clears Bill on Maratha quota

for PG medical courses
The government’s legislation contends that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)
and the centralised admission process (CAP) are two independent processes, sources said.
The government has justi ed the implementation of the reservation before CAP as a valid
move.
By Express News Service | • Mumbai |
Published: June 21, 2019 2:33:39 am

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In the wake of statewide protests by the Maratha community, the government had on November 30, 2018 cleared
a 16 per cent quota for the community in education and government jobs, identifying them as a Socially and
Economically Backward Class. (File/Express photo: Ganesh Shirsekar)

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Thursday unanimously approved a legislation for

extending Maratha quota for admissions to post-graduate medical courses, four days before
the Supreme Court hears a petition challenging the quota on June 24.

The government’s legislation contends that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)
and the centralised admission process (CAP) are two independent processes, sources said.
The government has justi ed the implementation of the reservation before CAP as a valid
move.
In the wake of statewide protests by the Maratha community, the government had on
November 30, 2018 cleared a 16 per cent quota for the community in education and
government jobs, identifying them as a Socially and Economically Backward Class. Later, on
March 8, 2019, the government had issued a noti cation to implement the reservation in
educational institutions.

But on May 2 this year, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court (HC) had disallowed the
quota for admissions to post-graduate medical courses on the grounds that the reservation
cannot be applied with retrospective effect. Contending that the admission process for post-
graduate medical courses had already begun before the quota was cleared, the HC had argued
that the move was arbitrary, violative and created unequal competition. While the government
had immediately approached the SC against this order, the apex court, on May 9, upheld the HC
verdict, criticising the government for “messing up the admission process”.

Since students from the Maratha community had threatened fresh agitations over the
reservation issue, and Assembly elections just a few months away, the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) government had promulgated an ordinance in May to work around the SC ruling. The
state Assembly on Thursday sanctioned the conversion of this ordinance into law.

To nullify the SC’s contention that reservations were being applied with retrospective effect,
sources said the government’s legislation has contended that the NEET, which has been
conducted already, and CAP, are two independent processes. It has justi ed the
implementation of the reservation before CAP as a valid move.

If the legislation route fails to stand up to legal scrutiny, the state government has proposed to
the Centre and the Medical Council of India that it be allowed to enhance the intake of
students.

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