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| Saturday, Feb 24, 2007
President's nod for CET abolition Bill likely in 3 weeks
Chennai: The State Government expects Presidential assent to its legislation abolishing entrance
examination for admission to professional courses within three weeks, the Madras High Court was
informed on Friday.
When a batch of public interest litigation petitions, challenging the Government's December 6, 2006 order
came up for hearing before Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru, Additional Advocate-General
N. Kannadasan furnished a letter written by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Mr. Kannadasan said the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Institution Education Bill 2006 had been cleared
by three Union Ministries, and the assent was expected in three weeks. The Bench adjourned the matter to March 14.
In his February 20 letter, Mr. Karunanidhi said the Bill was forwarded to the Centre on December 26, 2006 for the consent
of the President. According to him, the Union Ministries of Human Resource Development, Health and Social Justice had
approved the Bill. It was pending with the Ministry of Home for remarks and "onward transmission" to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
"As the academic year is coming to a close, the students and parents are very much worried about their admissions to
professional colleges," Mr. Karunanidhi said. "I, therefore, request you to kindly intervene in this very important public
matter and issue instructions to the Home department to send the Bill to His Excellency the President of India without
further loss of time."
Courtesy: The Hindu
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