Port Blair, June 17: Taking up issues of Island students Kuldeep Rai Sharma, PCC President has personally met with the Union Home Minister on 4th June, 2013 at Delhi and earnestly requested him to consider 40 MBBS seats to the AN Administration for alloting those seats to the eligible candidates and after returning back to Port Blair when he came to know that one MBBS seat which was being allotted by the Punjab Government to the student of Punjab origin of this islands has been withdrawn from this year, he immediately wrote a letter of request to the Chief Minister of Punjab to kindly intervene in the matter so that the withdrawn MBBS seat may again be allotted to the AN Administration for the students of Punjabi origin.
In his letter Sharma wrote that till last year, one MBBS seat was being allotted to such student of these islands in Baba Farid Health and Science University, Faridkot but from this year this allotment of quota has been withdrawn.
This sudden withdrawal of seat has come as a surprise to the parents of the students, belonging to Punjabi origin.
Sharma has also stated in his letter that most of the Indian States are allotting such quotas for the students of these islands who originally hail from their respective states but settled here and quoted examples of States like Kerala , and Tamil Nadu etc. Mentioning of the non availability of Medical College in these islands, Sharma wrote that though the students of these islands are extra ordinary meritorious and securing excellent marks in their Class XII examination of CBSE but remain dependent on the quota allotted by the Central and State Governments. He has thus requested the Chief Minister to kindly take care of those students, who originally hail from Punjab but settled in these islands and keep utmost desire to serve the Country as Doctors by allowing them the seat of MBBS in the said University , which has been withdrawn. Sharma hopes that the Chief Minister will certainly take a note of this letter and give favourable consideration.
