Under the Essential Services Maintenance Act strikes are banned in medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh. The UP government had dissolved the Resident Doctors' Association in January this year in this regard.
Besides this, the policy of 50 per cent quota comprising 23 per cent for Scheduled Castes/Tribes and 27 per cent for other backward classes in admissions and faculty appointment has already been implement in Uttar Pradesh since 1989, making the UP branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) indecisive about its stand on the reservation issue.