Probe sought into MBBS admissions

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Chamba, October 11

The OBC candidates seeking admission to the MBBS course in the state medical colleges have urged Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to order a probe into the recent MBBS admissions in Himachal Pradesh.

There are 200 MBBS seats to be filled in through Himachal Pradesh University. The university has given reservation to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) as per the government norms and instructions.

However, there is no reservation for the OBC candidates against the quota fixed by the state as well as the Central government. Educational institutions under the Central government are providing 27 per cent reservation to the OBC, but the quota is being ignored in the state.

One of the parents of an OBC candidate on anonymity said today that the counseling panel at the HP university during the recent counseling for MBBS admission, which was held from August 27 to August 29 at the university auditorium, failed to give reasons as to why the instructions of the government could not be complied with, thereby depriving a large number of students, belonging to the OBC category, of taking admission to MBBS course.

Only six seats of the total 200 MBBS seats had been filled by the university i.e. four seats at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, and two at Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (DRPGMC), Tanda.