Aiims News

Amid demands from various parties, government on Wednesday said that it will consider bringing a constitutional amendment in the current session of Parliament to annul a Supreme Court order against reservation for faculty in super-speciality section in AIIMS. Law minister Kapil Sibal said if the order is not annulled by the SC, the government will bring a constitutional amendment.

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced that the 7th AIIMS-like institute would come up at Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency-Rae Bareilly. While addressing the convocation-ceremony at AIIMS-Delhi, Azad also said, a National Cancer Institute with state-of-art research and patient-care facilities would be established at Jhajjar (Haryana) along with 20 other new State cancer institutes and 50 tertiary care cancer centres.

On August-14, the Health Ministry asked AIIMS to go ahead with filling 148-posts of super-specialty faculty as per the current quota policy even though the government's review petition is pending in the Supreme Court. Earlier, the SC had ruled that there could be no reservation in appointment for faculty posts in speciality and super-speciality courses in medical colleges, including AIIMS.