Docs concerned over delay in admissions

05.01.2022

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T he resident doctors have genuine concerns over the delay in admissions to PG medical courses, which have been delayed because of the pendency of the cases and the Centre’s decision to revisit the EWS criteria, he said.

The Centre was virtually forced to constitute a highlevel three-member committee headedby for mer finance secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey on being prodded by the SC, which had posed probing questions about the sanctity of the criteria. The committee gave its report on December 31 and recom- mended sticking to the ₹8 lakh annual income cut-off criteria for a candidate to be categorised as EWS.

The government said it has accepted the Pandey Committee recommendations, including continuance of ₹8 lakh annual income limit. The Committee had said that the EWS income criteria may appear similar to the criteria for creamy layer amongOBCs at first blush, but it was very different.

The committee said that the “EWS may, however exclude, irrespective of income, a person whose family has 5 acres of agricultural land and above”.