Thread by @miryalasrikanth

Dr Ananthram was an MBBS graduate who secured state 1st rank in AP PG entrance test and he wanted to join Radiology in Osmania medical college, however he was denied that seat because the so called seat was reserved for some category in rostered system.

Distraught Dr Ananthram had filed a case against Dr NTR University of health sciences and voiced his demand -“Is there anything else other than first rank to secure radiology seat in Osmania medical college? If so I am ready to achieve that!”,the court has ruled in favour of him.

The University cancelled the counselling and allocated the seat to Dr Ananthram. This incident happened while I was still studying MBBS. In this background I would like to tell few of my experiences during my PG preparation. I was shortlisted for interview for admission into +

Psychiatry at CMC Vellore, however they called 18 people for two MD seats and one was reserved for the candidate from their institute and the other one was given to the person of their institute.Later I got 3rd rank in neurosurgery stream for NIMS Hyderabad.There were three seats

of which one was reserved. Dr Omkar who was my immediate senior in Andhra Medical College has secured second rank. His story was even more interesting, he secured a seat in general medicine branch at NIMS Hyderabad and at the same time the state government of AP has introduced

5%additional reservation to a category and NIMS did not want to apply that reservation, so a person from the reserved category has approached the court and won the case against NIMS, so they had to kick out Dr Omkar to give this seat to the person who claimed it.

Later DrOmkar appeared for entrance in Neurosurgery stream along with me and secured second rank and he took the second seat,thus even with three seats and securing third rank I was denied seat.This time I understood that I have to secure first rank like DrAnanthram to get a seat

I wished to study general medicine in institutes like PGI, AIIMS and JIPMER however I needed to secure rank below number 3 to get an admission which was a Herculean task for me. Later after few months I secured first rank in post MBBS category for NIMHANS Psychiatry entrance.

When I knew the result I literally jumped in joy on the roads of electronic city in Bangalore. After I joined NIMHANS there I met Dr Ananthram who also joined the same institute this time for super speciality in Neuro radiology, obviously he secured again first rank as there only

Two seats and one was for sponsored. After I did my MD, I had applied for Assistant Professor post twice to government of AP only to be shown the door out as there were not enough posts due to reservation quota. People who got bigger ranks and studied in third grade colleges

have got jobs and became assistant professors. Later I applied for Australia and got a job as registrar with Melbourne Health. I could complete my requirements for fellowship and became a fellow of The Royal Australian and NewZealand College of Psychiatrists.

I have been offered a post of Consultant Psychiatrist with Melbourne health. Ironically both Dr Omkar and me belong to reserved category still we could not get seats or jobs due to reservation. This account is not a criticism but my experience.