Bahujan Samaj representatives and leaders met on Sunday at Mapusa to protest against governments failure to provide reservation in Post Graduate programmes of Goa Medical and Dental College

Bahujan Samaj representatives and leaders met on Sunday at Mapusa to protest against governments failure to provide reservation in Post Graduate programmes of Goa Medical and Dental College

In order to protest this move and to chalk out the future plan of action,at Pragati Sankul of Gomantak Bhandari Samaj, Mapusa, near Bodgeshwar Temple

With one more academic year going by, the desperation of aspiring candidates belonging to OBC, SC, ST for the admission for Post-graduate programmes of medicine and dentistry at Goa Medical College and Goa Dental College under 50% state quota has given rise to frustration as persistent efforts by various leaders of ST,SC and OBC communities have once again appeared to have failed to raise enough noise to wake up the government on time to implement its own order of providing 41% reservation to SC/ST and OBC candidates.

The meeting was attended by President, secretary and other office bearers of various registered SC/ST/OBC samaj bodies that issue caste certificates and represent the communities that are listed by government as SC/ST and OBC.

The representatives of apex bodies and federations were also invited.
In addition, the meeting was also open to all active social workers, youth, candidates and parents who have been denied the admission to PG or those who are aspiring to study PG in coming years, leaders of political parties, elected representatives such as MPs, MLAs, ZPs, sarpanch, panch and councillors.

The failure by government to revise and release rules for admission to these courses in line with its own notification issued in May 2021 to end the almost 14 years of injustice on these communities is not implemented due to the observations by High court.
The government is yet to take any corrective action on this and as various leaders who are constantly following up this matter has found that some officials are delaying the file movement so that admission rounds of Academic year 2022-23 are conducted without reservations.

Organizers called upon concerned persons to attend the meeting and to take government to task on this matter. The meeting also discussed various other issues plaguing the bahujan samaj of Goa.