Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 10: J&K Students Association here has urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to delay the pooling of PG seats from JK UT in All India Quota (AIQ) until PG seats are allotted to new Medical Colleges.
The demand has come in backdrop of the proposed idea of pooling 50 percent PG seats in AlQ , whereby it has been recommended that JKUT would participate in the AlQ for PG seats pooling a proposed 50 percent of its total seat capacity from 2022 onwards.
In a statement, Joint secretary of the Association Faizan Peer said: “The UT currently has a very small pool of PG seats comprising of a few hundred seats unlike those UTs/States of India which participate in AlQ and have thousands of medical PG seats.
“Under the guidelines for implementation of All India Quota wherein 50 percent seats from GMCs and 100 percent seats from SKIMS would be filled through the same, only 172 seats would be reserved for the domicile aspirants of JK rendering a loss of 350 seats out of the total 522 seats available at present implying that 70 percent of seats would be written off with a meagre 30 percent seats earmarked for the destitute UT,” he explained.
Additional Spokesperson of the Association Ummar Jamal said: PG scholars from other states would not contribute to the overall number of specialists here. Whereas for doctors belonging to J&K, pursuing PG programme in different State colleges of India would have to be substantiated by subscribing to a working bond of 4-6 years. This would consequently reduce the doctor-patient ratio in the region drastically which is already very grim”.
The Association has appealed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to consider the demand of delaying the pooling of PG seats from UT of J&K in All India Quota until PG seats are allotted to new Medical Colleges so that J&K could participate in All India Quota without affecting the overall seat balance.
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