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| Tuesday, July 10, 2007
No medical/dental counselling today
High Court restrains authorities from proceeding with the
process
Chennai: Counselling for admission to MBBS/BDS courses will
not be held on Tuesday, with the Madras High Court restraining
the authorities from proceeding with the process.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice
P. Jyothimani, passed the interim order on Monday, on a batch
of public interest litigation petitions seeking deletion of
names of students who had written the Plus Two examinations
between 2000 and 2005 from the rank list for MBBS/BDS admissions
this year.
The Bench said a disqualification clause, which effectively
embargoed students admitted to any other professional course
from applying for MBBS/BDS courses, was arbitrarily removed
by the authorities this year. “Even one admission should
not be done in this fashion.” Recording submission from
the Government side that counselling would not be held on Tuesday,
the court posted the matter as the first case on Tuesday for
further proceedings.
The matter relates to Clause 6 (ii) of the prospectus, which,
till last year, rendered candidates undergoing courses such
as MBBS, BDS, B. Pharmacy, B.Sc (Nursing), Engineering, Law,
Agriculture and Veterinary ineligible to apply for medical and
dental courses. However, Clause 6 (a) (ii) of the prospectus
for the current academic year removed engineering, law, agriculture
and veterinary from the embargo list, thereby paving the way
for students, who had cleared their Plus Two examinations between
2000 to 2005 and obtained admissions in engineering and other
professional courses, to apply for medical and dental courses.
Some of them became eligible for admission to medical and dental
courses this year. After hearing counsel K. Selvaraj and Nalini
Chidambaram, the Bench, initially reluctant to stay the counselling,
took serious note of the “arbitrary” deletion. It
said the authorities had two options: stop the counselling on
their own or face an interim order of stay. If counselling was
held and allotment orders issued, then nothing survived in the
case. It would lead to chaos. Maintaining that the matter required
to be fully investigated, the Judges said: “The best way
is to stop the counselling.” The Bench turned down Special
Government Pleader (Education) M. Sekar’s plea for permission
to continue the counselling without any allotment order being
issued till the matter was disposed of.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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