Kohima, August 29 (MExN): A group of three tribes have written to the Chief Minister of Nagaland asking for the reservation policy in the State to be “reviewed and re-examined.”
The Angami, Ao and Lotha students’ bodies stated this while attempting to intervene in the NSEE-II selection of MBBS and BDS candidates for the session 2016-17. They maintained the opinion that “to provide reservation superseding merit would itself defy logic and the very purpose of medical profession itself.”
The letter was signed by Dievi Yano, President of the Angami Students’ Union, Amos Odyuo, President of the Lotha Students’ Union and L Jemti Longchar, President of the Ao Students’ Conference.
“It is our expressed desire that reservation within reservation in professional and technical examinations requires urgent redressal. This reservation and quota policy if not reviewed will murder professionalism and it is a dangerous trend especially in the field of medical science and many other technical subject matter as there are irrefutable factors which cannot be dealt as a mere clerical responsibility,” the representation to the CM stated.
Registering their dissent over the “recent MBBS & BDS issue,” the three bodies stressed their stand to be that the “latest declared result must stand and necessary proceedings be initiated at the earliest so that the students’ careers are not hampered.”
Asking for the reservation policy to be reviewed, the three bodies noted that “it holds no meaning when Backward Tribes reservation share is actually higher than that of the general category, as in this case has amply displayed.”
