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| Thursday, July 12, 2007
Surrender of seats: court reserves orders
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Wednesday reserved its orders
on a batch of writ appeals on the surrender of seats by unaided
professional colleges, and management quota admissions through
centralised counselling on the basis of marks in qualifying
examinations.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice
P. Jyothimani, also directed the association of self-financing
engineering colleges and the lone private medical college to
furnish details as to how they proposed to admit students in
view of the absence of a common entrance test this year, and
explain their opposition to the single window system of admission.
The Bench said an order in the matter was likely to be delivered
on Thursday.
Earlier, Advocate-General R. Viduthalai submitted that the impugned
Sections of 4(1) and 5(4) of the Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional
Educational Institution Act were regulatory measures intended
to ensure transparency and merit. “The provisions have
to be construed as an appropriate regulatory measure for securing
transparency and recognition of merit in the matter of admissions,”
he said, adding that the provision for centralised counselling
or single window system by an authority authorised by the Government
was within the bounds laid down by the Supreme Court in the
P.A. Inamdar case.
Similarly, the voluntary agreement for seat-sharing is an aspect
for maintenance of merit and hence it can only be a one-time
agreement and not an annual exercise, “since merit, as
the criterion for admission, is an essential ingredient for
all time to come.”
Courtesy: The Hindu
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