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Maratha quota row: Maharashtra cabinet approves ordinance on reservation in post-graduate medical courses

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To ‘protect’ admissions granted to Maratha students under the 16 per cent reservation for the community, the Maharashtra Cabinet on Friday gave its approval to promulgate an ordinance to bypass a Supreme Court judgment that barred the state from implementing the quota for admissions to the post-graduate medical courses this year.

The Cabinet meeting was held after the state received permission from the Election Commission of India (ECI) to promulgate the ordinance even as the model code of conduct for the parliamentary elections was still in place.

“The SC decision would have led to the cancellation of the admissions of 195 students. Under it, 22 students, who could have gotten admissions elsewhere across the country, had taken admissions in the state under the Maratha quota. So, the doors for them were closed in the Centre and the state. So, the decision of promulgating an ordinance has been taken to protect the admissions of these students,” Chandrakant Patil, revenue minister, told mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting.