Assam cabinet proposes 10% NRI quota in MBBS seats, increase in reservation for 6 OBC/MOBC communities

At our weekly #AssamCabinet, we took several decisions:

✅Reservation for OBC/MOBC (non creamy layer) in MBBS/BDS courses

✅ Empowering autonomous councils to recruit Retd. executive engineers

✅Medicalcare for sportspersons

✅Discontinuation of physical non-judicial stamps pic.twitter.com/x2wMdWDKzP

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There will also be an increase in reservations for six communities of OBC, MOBC category (non-creamy layer). There will be an increase of 3 seats each for children of tea garden/ ex-tea garden communities or tribes., out of which 22 will be for Bhrahmaputra valley and 8 for Baruk valley. Moran, Matak, Tai Ahom, Chutia, Koch Rajbongshi.

Therefore, the seats will increase from 27 to 30 for children of tea garden/ ex-tea garden communities/ tribes, Moran and Matak communities will now get 8 seats each, of which one will be for BDS, Tai Ahom will now get 10 seats including one seat for BDS, Chutia and Koch Rajbongshi will now have 9 and 13 seats respectively and one seat each for BDS in both communities.

There is a 10 per cent EWS quota for MBBS seats in six medical colleges: Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Johrat, Tezpur and Barpeta.