Benefitting divyangs, medical course reservation quota leveled up from 3% to 5%

New Delhi, March 21: Helping the disabled and the bringing them on a platform to confer progress and development, the reservation quota has helped them move ahead. Hovering to the benefits of reservation and expanding their seats, the Department of Health and Family Welfare approved to amend the percentage of seats by increasing it from 3% to 5% in accordance to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

 

Favorable for the divyangs, there are many provisions in accordance and in favor for them. Earlier the reservation for the disabled section was limited to just 3%. With welcoming new amendments and modifications, the health department has opened its doors for each and every person. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has granted approval to amend the regulation for admission to PG medical courses in order to expand the scope of persons with disabilities getting benefit of reservation. Ensuring and covering the total 21 benchmark of disabled persons can now avail the benefits of registering for admission in the medical courses.

 

Accordingly, the software used by The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) for central counseling has also been amended to allow registration of all such candidates. Registration/allotment of seats would be followed by a medical examination to ascertain the level of Disability before finally granting admission to candidates selected under the reserved quota.

 

For the last one year, it has been projected that the government is pursuing the social welfare agenda for the differently-abled on a mission mode. From the ‘Accessible India Campaign’ in which the government set an ambitious target of making a large number of government buildings, railway stations, and international airports fully accessible – to the change of nomenclature from ‘viklang’ to ‘divyang’, there were talks galore on the welfare of the differently-abled.