The state government plans to challenge decision of the Nagpur High Court bench on reservation benefits to Maratha community in post-graduate medical education admissions for this academic year. The Nagpur bench on Thursday said that reservation benefit cannot be given retrospectively from this year.
PWD minister Chandrakant Patil, who headed the cabinet subcommittee on Maratha reservation said that neither the Nagpur bench nor the Supreme Court has given any stay on Maratha reservation decision. He said the state has decided to give 16 per cent reservation to Maratha community in jobs and education. Patil made it clear that the process for recruitment and admissions would be carried out as none of the courts have struck down the reservation decision.
Patil informed that after the decision, reservation decision was challenged in high court as well as supreme court. He said that SC immediately rejected the application and pointed out that the case is being heard before HC.