Junior Resident Doctors Serving In ESIC Approach Supreme Court Seeking To Be Included In 50% "In Service" Reservation For PG Courses
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Junior Resident Doctors who've completed their MBBS courses from Institutions/ Hospitals run by the Employees State Insurance Corporation ("ESIC") have approached Supreme Court seeking to be included in the 50% "in- service" doctors reservation for PG courses, which is currently restricted to Insurance Medical Officers grade.On being mentioned by AOR Sachin Patil, the vacation bench of...
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Junior Resident Doctors who've completed their MBBS courses from Institutions/ Hospitals run by the Employees State Insurance Corporation ("ESIC") have approached Supreme Court seeking to be included in the 50% "in- service" doctors reservation for PG courses, which is currently restricted to Insurance Medical Officers grade.
On being mentioned by AOR Sachin Patil, the vacation bench of Justices AS Bopanna and Vikram Nath on Monday agreed to list the petition for Friday.
Junior Resident Doctors serving in ESIC/ESIS institutions have also sought to declare them as "in-service" doctors of ESIC/ESIS for being included in reservation for PG courses.
It has been argued in the petition that as per ESIC's policy, only IMO-II (doctors who are recruited by ESIC) working in the ESIC institutions have been given 50% reservation in PG medical seats in the ESIC Hospitals.
Stating that the Junior Resident Doctors have even executed a bond of serving Hospitals of ESIC as in service candidates for the period of five years with ESIC, petitioners have contended that, "Qualifications, entitlements, duties and responsibilities as well as pay scale of junior resident doctors and IMO-II are one and the same. Both officials are at par."
It has further been stated in the plea that, "though Petitioners are similarly placed junior resident doctors like IMO- II but they are not held to be eligible for said 50% quota of ESIC Hospitals. Thus the policy of ESIC is arbitrary and discriminatory which violates Article 14 of the Constitution. It is submitted that ESIC has been granting benefit of reservation to one set of in service candidates and denying said benefit to another set of in service candidates, when both are at par and similarly placed."
The resident doctors have also contended that they are entitled for the reservation of PG seats in the ESIC medical Institutions on account of institutional reservation/preference system since they are the alumni of the same institution.
Case Title: Hemant Kumar Verma & Ors. v ESIC & Ors.