Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 31: Former Finance Minister, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today urged the Government of India to issue a notification providing 100 per cent reservation to J&K candidates in allotment of Post Graduate seats in different Medical/Dental Colleges of the erstwhile State.
In a statement issued here, Bukhari expressed serious concern with regard to prevailing obscurity revolving round the whole exercise of filling of Post Graduate seats in different disciplines in SKIMS-Deemed University and other Medical Colleges of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The candidates of Jammu and Kashmir appeared in the examination conducted through NEET after facing tremendous hardships including internet shutdown. They braved all odds with a hope that they will get their share of seats through the same procedure which was in vogue before August 5, 2019,” Bukhari said while soliciting the personal intervention of Prime Minster Narendra Modi in this regard.
He appealed the Prime Minster to convey to the Ministry of Home Affairs that J&K should not be a part of All India quota for PG Medical courses and keep 100 per cent of Jammu & Kashmir’s seats reserved for its local students.
“This has been one of our top most political demands submitted before the Government of India that our residents/students should have 100 per cent reservation to professional courses in various streams and disciplines offered in medicine and engineering by our Medical Colleges, Engineering Colleges and deemed universities of Jammu and Kashmir,” Bukhari observed.
He urged the Medical Counseling Committee (MCC) not go for counseling of All India Quota seats of Jammu and Kashmir for all Medical/Dental Colleges, Institutes as per merit of PG NEET 2020 till the Government of India comes up with a clarity in this regard.
He appealed to the Government of India to rebuild and regain the lost trust and confidence of J&K students by ordering 100 per cent reservation to them in various professional courses as has been promised by the Prime Minister and Home Minister on the floor of Parliament.
The former minister echoed the concern of J&K people saying that earlier, J&K had 100 per cent of seats reserved for its students in its own Medical Colleges and now, after its bifurcation into two UTs, it is not clear whether it will have that reservation or not.
Bukhari said as a good will gesture, the Govt must restrict all the professional seats available in different Medical Colleges of J&K for the local youth.
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