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PANJIM: The Supreme Court has issued notice to the concerned authorities on a Special Leave Petition (SLP) that challenges order of the High Court of Bombay at Goa which quashed and set aside Goa government’s decision to implement 41 per cent reservations in the post graduate courses at Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim from academic year 2021-22.
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Bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice P S Narasimha however refused to grant any interim relief. The matter pertains to a notification dated June 3, 2000 extending the benefit of reservation of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities in direct recruitment for State services and State undertaking with 27 per cent reservation.
Through another notification dated April 22, 2003, this was reduced to 19.5 per cent and the government issued a further notification in 2007 to extend this reservation to Scheduled Tribes category to the extent of 12 per cent of the total seats in every educational institution in Goa.
In 2014, a notification was issued and reservation for OBC category was once again enhanced to 27 per cent and it was made applicable for the government/government aided educational institutions as well.
Though, the reservations were extended to aided and unaided educational institutions, it was not implemented in post graduate courses.
The Goa State Commission for Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes passed an order in 2020 for implementing reservations for SC, ST and OBC communities in the post graduation courses at GMC from the academic year 2020-21.
