New Delhi 26th May 2006

The National Human Rights Commission has recommended to the Government that it should get examined the issue of reservation thoroughly so that fairness and justice is not denied to any section or class of the society. Reacting to media reports that showed some of the students and doctors, on hunger strike, being removed for medial care, the Commission described the reservation issue as a complex one. The Commission felt that the Government should ensure a balanced and orderly development of all sections and classes of society while implementing its policy.
Expressing concern over the deteriorating health of students and doctors who are on hunger strike in protest against the proposed increase in reservation quota, the Commission also expressed its concern for the denial of health care facilities to the sick and ailing due to strike in Government hospitals.
The Commission had earlier sought factual report from the Commissioners of Police, Delhi and Mumbai, about the brutal police action on medical and engineering students indulging in protests. As the Commission was awaiting the response, the latest reports in the media showed that some of the students and doctors on hunger strike had to be removed for emergency medical care.
The NHRC at the same time has appealed to the doctors to resume their work in the interest of ailing patients and asked those who are on hunger strike to call off their strike.
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