INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: The counselling for MBBS admissions by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences landed in fresh controversy with the
Backward Classes organisations alleging gross violation of Supreme Court directions in applying the rule of reservation.J
Srinivas Goud, president of Telangana Backward Classes Welfare Association, dashed off a letter to Chief Minister K
Chandrasekhar Rao bringing to his notice about 200 BC students losing seats in medicine due to what he described as illegal method of
filling reserved category seats
including the NTR University of Health Sciences in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, were following the SC directives, Goud said from the
second round of counselling the open category seats should be filled first followed by the sliding seats and finally the reserved category
The Kaloji varsity, however, has been filling the reserved category first and then the open category, he pointed out
As a result, the meritorious reserved candidates are remaining in the reserved category instead of getting converted into open category
As they were retained in the reservation category, another 200 BC students who could have got seats in BC quota lost the opportunity, he
phase itself against the rule of reservation
According to the university website itself the blocked MRC seats in the first phase are 590, he said.Goud also complained that he had been
warning health minister E
Rajender and health department senior officials about the eventuality of the university flouting rule of reservation for the last two months
