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| Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006
New rule for unaided minority professional colleges
- Clarifications with regard to entrance test and rule of reservation sought
- Managements will find it difficult to follow reservation
- The court adjourns the matter to Tuesday for orders
Chennai: In a new development, the Tamil Nadu Government has told the Madras High Court that unaided minority professional colleges must follow the rule of reservation if they admit students from non-minority communities.
Submitting an affidavit to this effect, Advocate-General R. Viduthalai said the Government had agreed to follow last year's admission procedure, as per which both minority and non-minority colleges need not follow the single window system of admissions. "However, they have to make admissions based on the marks obtained by students in Plus Two examination and also the marks obtained by them in the common entrance test, by following the rule of reservation prevailing in Tamil Nadu," the affidavit read.
Mr. Viduthalai submitted that reservation with regard to non-minority institutions was inevitable, and added, "Communal reservation in non-minority institution is necessary even in management quota." In the event of minority institutions filling up their seats with students from non-minority communities, then the rule of reservation must be followed, he said. Assailing these provisions, senior counsel for the Consortium N.R. Chandran sought clarifications with regard to the entrance test and the rule of reservation. To this, it was clarified that the CET meant any of the tests conducted by the Government or Government-approved agencies.
Mr. Chandran said that out of 35 per cent of the total seats, managements would find it difficult to follow reservation, more so after reserving 15 per cent of the seats for non-resident Indians. The Bench, pointing out that last year's admission procedure excluded the rule of reservation, directed the Government to clarify its stand through another affidavit by Tuesday. He also asked the Consortium to clarify as to how they proposed to fill management quota seats retained by them.
Justice K. Ravirajapandian, hearing the petitions, then adjourned the matter to Tuesday for orders.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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