Mumbai: When resident doctors in Mumbai went on strike recently, the Indian Medical Association had supported the strike.
The Indian Medical Association joined hands with the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors when MARD went on strike in March demanding better working conditions, but just two months down the line MARD is finding it difficult to reciprocate as the IMA intensifies its stir against reservation for OBC candidates.
The simple reason is Maharashtra already has 50 per cent reservation in medical education and almost half the resident doctors in Maharashtra have secured admissions through such quotas.
But even in these reserved quotas are doctors who feel that merit is the best policy.
Grant Medical College Intern Amit Kumar said, "Merit is the appropriate criteria. It should be there. Likewise, in the field of games, sports, etc. the sportsman or players what they play is the criteria; how can you keep anything else than what is required in the field as the criteria".
But Kumar insists that such reservations have little to do with social upliftment and more to do with personal gains.
"It is nothing about development of community. Everybody is doing for personal gains," added Amit.
While politicians in Delhi make popular announcements to win elections, doctors in Mumbai are slowly but steadily intensifying their agitation. And with students like Amit Kumar wholeheartedly supporting their agitation, their stand just gets even stronger.
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