Medical colleges to have 18% quota this year!!!!

The 27 per cent quota for other backward castes (OBCs) will be implemented in central government-run medical institutes over a period of two years with 18 per cent seats reserved in the coming academic session. The decision was taken at a meeting of the heads of the institutes with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss here. The institutes include AIIMS, New Delhi; PGI, Chandigarh; JIPMER, Puducherry, and Ram Manohar Lohia and Lady Hardinge Medical colleges in New Delhi, official sources say. Ramadoss directed the institutes to submit their requirements for expanding infrastructure to the Expenditure Finance Committee by April 25. The heads of the institutes said the entire 27 per cent quota could be implemented within the next two years.