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| Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Court declines to stay counselling
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the
centralised counselling for admission to engineering admissions,
and reserved its orders on a public interest litigation petition.
Counselling is scheduled to commence on July 18.
The petition, filed by S. Narasimhan, sought to delete the names
of those candidates, who had got admission for any other professional
course, from the rank list for engineering admissions.
A Division Bench, comprising Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra and
Justice R. Banumathi, reserved its orders after hearing the
arguments of N.G.R. Prasad and Additional Advocate-General N.
Kannadasan. According to the petitioner, more than 2,000 students,
who had passed higher secondary examination from 2000-01 to
2005-06, had applied for engineering courses. Of them, 500 were
ranked high in the list and assured of a seat. They, along with
those who had secured admission for a professional course, would
directly prejudice the chances of the present batch of Plus
Two students. He sought a direction to the Higher Education
Secretary and the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions Secretary
to delete the names of these students and revise the rank list.
Mr. Kannadasan submitted that engineering admissions should
not be equated with the medical admissions as the number of
seats for medical/dental courses was meagre. As against less
than 2,000 medical seats, there were about 95,000 engineering
seats on offer this year. He recalled that about 20,000 engineering
seats remained vacant last year.
Unlike the prospectus for medical/dental courses, the prospectus
for engineering courses never had a clause explicitly disqualifying
students who had got admission for professional courses from
applying for engineering courses, Mr. Kannadasan argued.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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