The Assam Cabinet has decided to increase the number of seats reserved for each of the six communities claiming Scheduled Tribe status in medical education by two.
The Tea Garden Tribes, Koch Rajbongshi, Tai Ahom, Matak, Moran, and Chutia—which are currently defined as Other Backward Communities (OBC) have seats reserved for students from those communities in the MBBS program, according to Tourism Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said at a cabinet meeting late on Friday night.
The tea garden tribes will now have 26 reserved seats, the Koch dynasty 10, so the Ahoms will have seven, six for the Chutias and five each for the Mataks and Morans. Three seats will be reserved under the ex-serviceman quota for studying Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS).
