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| Friday, July 06, 2007
High Court not to pass interim order
On consortium colleges’ writ appeal
- Centralised counselling for engineering admissions on July 18
- Hearing will continue on Friday
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday said it would not
pass any interim order on the writ appeal preferred by the association
of unaided professional colleges against a single judge order,
upholding the State Government’s stand on surrender of
seats by unaided colleges and admission of students to management
quota.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice
P. Jyothimani, commenced hearing on the appeal against the July
2 order of Justice V. Dhanapalan.
Arrangement in other States
During arguments, the Chief Justice also observed that in other
States there was some arrangement between the college managements
and the Government, wherein the colleges voluntarily surrendered
a certain percentage of their seats to the Government quota.
He then said, “If we grant interim order this way or that
way, it may not be proper as important questions are involved.”
Counselling and admission process for medical courses in Tamil
Nadu are scheduled to commence on July 9.
Centralised counselling for engineering admissions is to begin
on July 18.
Referring to the schedule, Rajeev Dhavan, senior counsel for
the Consortium of Self-Financing Professional, Arts and Science
Colleges, submitted that if permitted to proceed, the Government
would fill the seats “appropriated” from unaided
professional colleges.
He sought to know the basis on which the Government decided
to seek surrender of 65 per cent of seats in non-minority institutions
and 50 per cent in minority institutions.
Consensus
Advocate-General R. Viduthalai, reiterating that he would convince
the Bench about the rationale behind the impugned Tamil Nadu
Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act and the
May 25 Government Order, said the consensus on seat-sharing
agreed by the colleges and the Government in 2006 was not a
commercial contract renewable every year.
Reviewing it every year is not in public interest, he added.
Hearing will continue on Friday.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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